Review of wearable thermoelectric energy harvesting: From body temperature to electronic systems

A Nozariasbmarz, H Collins, K Dsouza, MH Polash… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Global demand for battery-free metrics and health monitoring devices has urged leading
research agencies and their subordinate centers to set human energy harvesting and self …

A review of charge pump topologies for the power management of IoT nodes

A Ballo, AD Grasso, G Palumbo - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the aim of providing designer guidelines for choosing the most suitable solution,
according to the given design specifications, in this paper a review of charge pump (CP) …

A 3.5-mV input single-inductor self-starting boost converter with loss-aware MPPT for efficient autonomous body-heat energy harvesting

S Bose, T Anand, ML Johnston - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A single-inductor self-starting boost converter is presented, which is suitable for
thermoelectric energy harvesting from human body heat. In order to extract maximum energy …

Maximum power point tracking and photovoltaic energy harvesting for Internet of Things: A comprehensive review

FF Ahmad, C Ghenai, M Bettayeb - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is a powerful platform for connecting the physical world to
the digital one. The recent development in IoT-based technologies has increased human …

Integrated cold start of a boost converter at 57 mV using cross-coupled complementary charge pumps and ultra-low-voltage ring oscillator

S Bose, T Anand, ML Johnston - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

A subthreshold cross-coupled hybrid charge pump for 50-mV cold-start

A Ballo, AD Grasso, G Palumbo - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a fully-integrated switched-capacitor DC-DC converter based on a Dickson
charge pump able to work with input voltage levels that force the transistors working in …

Charge pumps for ultra-low-power applications: Analysis, design, and new solutions

A Ballo, AD Grasso, G Palumbo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief a brief tutorial of charge pump topologies for management of self-powered nodes
in ultra-low-power applications, such as Internet of Things nodes, is presented. It aims to …

A sub-10 mV power converter with fully integrated self-start, MPPT, and ZCS control for thermoelectric energy harvesting

Z Luo, L Zeng, B Lau, Y Lian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An inductive power converter for thermoelectric generator (TEG) is presented in this paper. A
novel redundant inverter ring oscillator is proposed to self-oscillate in a very low supply …

An 88% Efficiency 0.1–300- W Energy Harvesting System With 3-D MPPT Using Switch Width Modulation for IoT Smart Nodes

K Rawy, T Yoo, TTH Kim - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel 3-D maximum power point tracking (3-D MPPT) system for
energy harvesting systems (EHS) within Internet of Things (IoT) smart nodes. The proposed …