CMOS Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters Efficient Power Extraction, Interface Modeling and Loss Analysis /

• Main Authors: Hehn, Thorsten (Author), Manoli, Yiannos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 38
• Subjects: Physics.; Energy harvesting.; Electronic circuits.; Power electronics.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Energy Harvesting.; Circuits and Systems.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.

This book deals with the challenge of exploiting ambient vibrational energy which can be used to power small and low-power electronic devices, e.g. wireless sensor nodes. Generally, particularly for low voltage amplitudes, low-loss rectification is required to achieve high conversion efficiency. In...