[HTML][HTML] Piezoelectric energy harvesting and ultra-low-power management circuits for medical devices

N Almarri, J Chang, W Song, D Jiang, A Demosthenous - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesting enables the development of sustainable, batteryless
medical devices, powered by micro-watts level energy transduction and low-frequency body …

Trimming-less voltage reference for highly uncertain harvesting down to 0.25 V, 5.4 pW

L Fassio, L Lin, R De Rose, M Lanuzza… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces a compact NMOS-only voltage reference that is able to operate down
to a 0.25-V supply voltage and 5.4-pW power consumption. This allows reliable generation …

Body-area powering with human body-coupled power transmission and energy harvesting ICs

J Li, Y Dong, JH Park, L Lin, T Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the body-coupled power transmission and ambient energy harvesting
ICs. The ICs utilize human body-coupling to deliver power to the entire body, and at the …

From less batteries to battery-less alert systems with wide power adaptation down to nWs—Toward a smarter, greener world

M Alioto - IEEE Design & Test, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey reviews the state of the art of IoT devices at the low-energy end of the scale:
battery-light and battery-less sensor nodes. They are tiny by necessity but expected to be …

A Sub-μW Energy-Performance-Aware IoT SoC With a Triple-Mode Power Management Unit for System Performance Scaling, Fast DVFS, and Energy Minimization

X Liu, S Kamineni, J Breiholz… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an ultra-low-power (ULP) Internet-of-Things (IoT) system-on-chip (SoC)
using a triple-mode power management unit (PMU) to achieve self-adaptive power …

A sub-nW 93% peak efficiency buck converter with wide dynamic range, fast DVFS, and asynchronous load-transient control

X Liu, BH Calhoun, S Li - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a highly efficient buck converter with sub-nW quiescent power and wide
dynamic range for ultra-low-power (ULP) Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems-on-chip (SoCs) …

A thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface with dual-conversion reconfigurable DC–DC converter and instantaneous linear extrapolation MPPT method

I Park, J Jeon, H Kim, T Park, J Jeong… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a thermoelectric (TE) energy-harvesting interface with a reconfigurable
dc–dc converter and a time-based instantaneous linear extrapolation (ILE) maximum power …

Optimal control strategies for high-efficiency non-isolated DC-DC buck converters in IoT applications: A comparative study

S Kumaraguruparan, K Elango - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract A DC-DC buck converter (DDBC) plays a crucial role in facilitating the rapid
evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) applications across a broad spectrum of load …

Sub-nW microcontroller with dual-mode logic and self-startup for battery-indifferent sensor nodes

L Lin, S Jain, M Alioto - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a battery-indifferent microcontroller unit (MCU) with wide power-performance
scaling is presented to enable continuous operation with a sub-mm 2 on-chip solar cell …

A 0.3-V ultralow-supply-voltage boost converter for thermoelectric energy harvesting with time-domain-based MPPT

SH Wu, X Liu, Q Wan, Q Kuai, YK Teh… - IEEE Solid-State …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a boost converter with ultralow-voltage time-domain control for
thermoelectric generators (TEGs). A subthreshold 0.3-V voltage supplied control system is …