Abstract
An energy harvester with a low startup voltage and wide input range is proposed mainly for solar power. In this work, neither any post-fabrication steps nor excessive external assistant components are required to startup the circuit with a low input voltage. Moreover, a voltage detector is proposed for widening the input voltage range. The proposed chip was fabricated by TSMC 0.18μm 1P6M mixed-signal CMOS process, and the chip area is 899μm×837μm. Measured results show that the minimal startup voltage is 155 mV. After startup, the input voltage may range from 20 mV to 1.7 V. The measured power efficiency is up to 92.8%.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 295-298 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509050253 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 Nov 2 |
| Event | 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2017 - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 2017 Sep 11 → 2017 Sep 14 |
Publication series
| Name | ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference |
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| Other | 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2017 |
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| Country | Belgium |
| City | Leuven |
| Period | 17-09-11 → 17-09-14 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Instrumentation
- Hardware and Architecture
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Computer Networks and Communications
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Wide-input-voltage-range and high-efficiency energy harvester with a 155-mv startup voltage for solar power. / Wu, Hung Hsien; Chen, Liang Yun; Wei, Chia-Ling.
ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 295-298 8094584 (ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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