Recent Start-Up Techniques Intended for TEG Energy Harvesting: A Review

M Ahmed, S Genevey, M Ali, Y Savaria, Y Audet - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing number of energy-autonomous applications raises the need for reliable DC
energy harvesting techniques such as Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs). One key issue …

Low-Power On-Chip Energy Harvesting: From Interface Circuits Perspective

S Song, D Wang, M Li, S Cao, F Zheng… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple parameter environment monitoring via wireless Internet of Thing sensors is growing
rapidly, thanks to low power techniques of the node. More importantly, the ever more …

A bipolar-input thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface with boost/flyback hybrid converter and on-chip cold starter

P Cao, Y Qian, P Xue, D Lu, J He… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a bipolar-input thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface based on
boost/flyback hybrid converter (BFHC). Two-type ring oscillators are combined to form as a …

A high-efficiency dual-polarity thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface circuit with cold startup and fast-searching ZCD

Q Kuai, HY Leung, Q Wan… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an auto-polarity thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface circuit
based on a single-inductor boost/buck–boost hybrid converter. The power stage is …

A 12 mV input, 90.8% peak efficiency CRM boost converter with a sub-threshold startup voltage for TEG energy harvesting

J Mu, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposed a high efficiency boost converter targeting thermoelectric generator
energy harvesting. The proposed converter adopts the critical conduction mode rather than …

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 …

[LIBRO][B] Energy harvesting for self-powered wearable devices

M Alhawari, B Mohammad, H Saleh, M Ismail - 2018 - Springer
The ever increasing demand for computing and communications especially for wearable
devices, coupled with some of the unique applications that require noninterruptible …

Low-Voltage Self-Operating MPPT Controlled Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Power Generator

S Patra, KP Muthe, D Prakash… - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the design and implementation of a low-voltage, high-power self-
operating maximum power point tracking (MPPT) based boost converter for battery charging …