Understanding energy dissipation and transport in nanoscale structures is of great
importance for the design of energy-efficient circuits and energy-conversion systems. This is …

Bulky off-chip inductors are predominantly adopted for inductive-based step-up DC-DC
converter in RF energy harvesting (RFEH) systems, which impose a restriction in physical …

Energy efficiency has become a ubiquitous design requirement for digital circuits.
Aggressive supply-voltage scaling has emerged as the most effective way to reduce energy …

A charge pump using 0.13-μm CMOS process for low-voltage energy harvesting is
presented. A low-power adaptive dead-time (AD) circuit is used which automatically …

This paper demonstrates an on-chip electrical cold-start technique to achieve low-voltage
and fast start-up of a boost converter for autonomous thermal energy harvesting from human …

CMOS microprocessors have achieved massive energy efficiency gains but may reach limits
soon. This paper presents an approach to estimating the limits on the maximum floating …

Subthreshold circuit design is promising for future ultralow-energy sensor applications as
well as highly parallel high-performance processing. Device scaling has the potential to …

Monolithic integration in CMOS has boosted the development of low cost, compact and
portable consumer applications. But until now the monolithic integration of DC-DC …

Subthreshold circuit design has become a popular approach for building energy efficient
digital circuits. One drawback is performance degradation due to the exponentially reduced …

This paper proposes a 2.4-GHz fully-integrated single-frequency multi-channel RF energy
harvesting (RFEH) system with increased harvested power density. The RFEH can produce …