CMOS Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters : Efficient Power Extraction, Interface Modeling and Loss Analysis / by Thorsten Hehn, Yiannos Manoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hehn, Thorsten, Author.

Manoli, Yiannos, Author.

Series:

Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 1437-0387 ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic circuits.

Energy harvesting.

Power electronics.

Electronic Circuits and Devices.

Energy Harvesting.

Circuits and Systems.

Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.

Local Subjects:

Electronic Circuits and Devices.

Energy Harvesting.

Circuits and Systems.

Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the special case of piezoelectric energy harvesting, pulsed charge extraction has the potential to extract more power compared to a single rectifier. For this purpose, a fully autonomous CMOS integrated interface circuit for piezoelectric generators which fulfills these requirements is presented. Due to these key properties enabling universal usage, other CMOS designers working in the field of energy harvesting will be encouraged to use some of the shown structures for their own implementations. The book is unique in the sense that it highlights the design process from scratch to the final chip. Hence, it gives the designer a comprehensive guide of how to (i) setup an appropriate harvester model to get realistic simulation results, (ii) design the integrated circuits for low power operation, (iii) setup a laboratory measurement environment in order to extensively characterize the chip in combination with the real harvester, and finally, (iv) interpret the simulation/measurement results in order to improve the chip performance. Since the dimensions of all devices (transistors, resistors etc.) are given, readers and other designers can easily re-use the presented circuit concepts.

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Piezoelectricity and Energy Harvester Modelling

3 Analysis of Different Interface Circuits

4 Theory of the Proposed PSCE Circuit

5 Implementation of the PSCE Circuit on Transistor Level

6 Performance Analysis of the PSCE Chip

7 Conclusions and Outlook. References

Appendix A Mathematical Calculations

A.1 Solution of the Linear Differential Equation Systems

A.2 Flux Property

A.3 Trigonometric Relations

A.4 Numerical Calculation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

94-017-9288-7