A Synchronized Switch Harvesting Rectifier With Reusable Storage Capacitors for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
Xinling Yue (TU Delft - Electronic Instrumentation)
Sijun Du (TU Delft - Electronic Instrumentation)
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Abstract
Synchronized ac-dc rectifiers are widely used for energy rectification in piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH), which have to employ a bulky inductor or some dedicated flying capacitors for high energy conversion efficiency. This article proposes a synchronized switch harvesting on shared capacitors (SSHSC) rectifier achieving synchronized voltage flipping without inductors or dedicated flying capacitors for PEH. The proposed SSHSC rectifier employs only three energy-storage capacitors with a specific capacitance ratio (3:3:1). These three capacitors mainly serve as storage capacitors; they can also be reused as flying capacitors for bias-flip operations. Thanks to the capacitor-sharing technique, this SSHSC rectifier takes a small volume and fewer I/O pads compared to prior SSHC rectifiers. This design was fabricated in a 180-nm BCD process, and the measured results show 78% voltage flipping efficiency and 7.58 × power enhancement.