A±0.5-mV-minimum-input DC-DC converter with stepwise adiabatic gate-drive and efficient timing control for thermoelectric energy harvesting

EJ Carlson, JR Smith - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a step-up DC-DC converter that uses a stepwise gate-drive technique to
reduce the power FET gate-drive energy by 82%, allowing positive efficiency down to an …

Design and analysis of energy-efficient single-pulse piezoelectric energy harvester and power management IC for battery-free wireless remote switch applications

M Lee, J Yang, MJ Park, SY Jung… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a piezoelectric-based power management solution for battery-free
wireless remote switches (BWSs). The proposed BWS IC, including a piezoelectric (PE) …

An energy efficient charging technique for switched capacitor voltage converters with low-duty ratio

S Arslan, SAA Shah, JJ Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Charging a capacitor array of a switched-capacitor (SC) dc-dc converter, supplying load
circuits with a very short active period, can be pivotal to achieve high energy efficiency of its …

Energy consumption analysis of the stepwise adiabatic circuits

A Khorami, R Saeidi - Microelectronics Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, an analytic model of the energy consumption of the Stepwise Adiabatic Circuits
(SAC) when it is possible to discharge the load capacitor is proposed. Using this model …

An analytical model for stepwise adiabatic driver energy consumption

EJ Carlson, JR Smith - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16680, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a complete closed-form analytical model for determining the per-cycle
energy consumption of stepwise adiabatic drivers used for driving a capacitive load such as …

An efficient fast switching procedure for stepwise capacitor chargers

A Khorami, M Sharifkhani - IEEE Transactions on Very Large …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new low-power switching procedure for stepwise capacitor chargers is presented. In this
procedure, a novel displacement method is utilized to improve the speed by a factor of two …

A reconfigurable voltage converter with split-capacitor charging and energy recycling for ultra-low-power applications

SAA Shah, S Arslan, H Kim - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a reconfigurable on-chip switched capacitor (SC) voltage converter
aimed at ultra-low-power applications. The proposed voltage converter provides an additive …

An accurate low-power DAC for SAR ADCs

SB Yazdani, A Khorami… - 2016 IEEE 59th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A highly energy-efficiency switching procedure for the capacitor-splitting digital-to-analog
converter (DAC) is presented for successive approximation register (SAR) analogue-to …

The Design, Characterization, and Deployment of a Bipolar±0.5-mV-Minimum-Input DC-DC Converter With Stepwise Adiabatic Gate-Drive and Efficient Timing Control …

EJ Carlson - 2023 - search.proquest.com
This work presents a step-up DC-DC converter that is optimized to extract power from
thermoelectric generators that generate extremely low voltages from small temperature …

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E Carlson, J Smith - 2023 - techrxiv.org
This paper presents a step-up DC-DC converter that uses a stepwise gate-drive technique to
reduce the power FET gate-drive energy by 82%, allowing positive efficiency down to an …