Title
A Highly Efficient Fully Integrated Active Rectifier for Ultrasonic Wireless Power Transfer
Author
Yue, X. (TU Delft Electronic Instrumentation)
Chen, Zhelun (Student TU Delft)
Zou, Yiwei (Student TU Delft)
Du, S. (TU Delft Electronic Instrumentation) 
Date
2022
Abstract
Ultrasonic wireless power transfer (WPT) has been proved to be a promising approach to power biomedical implants. To extract the energy generated from the transducer, a rectifier is typically required. Previous inductor-based rectifiers (SSHI and SECE) require a large off-chip inductor to achieve good performance, which is not desired for miniaturization and safety reasons. Synchronized switch harvesting on capacitors (SSHC) rectifiers have been proved to achieve high performance without inductors; however, they are mainly designed for low-frequency kinetic energy harvesting. In this paper, an improved SSHC rectifier is designed to achieve a fully integrated design with all flying capacitors implemented on-chip. The proposed SSHC rectifier can properly operate at ultrasonic excitation frequency (100 KHz) with precise switching time control and ultrafast voltage flipping techniques. In addition, an on-chip ultralow-power LDO allows the system to be self-sustained. The system is designed in a TSMC 180nm BCD technology and post-layout simulation results are presented.
Subject
Biomedical application
energy harvesting
fully integrated
integrated circuit
SSHC rectifier
ultrasonic transducer
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS48785.2022.9937532
Publisher
IEEE, Danvers
Embargo date
2023-07-01
ISBN
978-1-6654-8486-2
Source
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Event
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2022-05-27 → 2022-06-01, Austin, United States
Series
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 0271-4310, 2022-May
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2022 X. Yue, Zhelun Chen, Yiwei Zou, S. Du