Providing sustainable energy is one of the fundamental challenges for mankind. With energy usage being a part of everyday activities and with the increasingly diversity of energy ...
Albrecht Schmidt, Adrian Friday, Hans-Werner Gelle...
Sensor networks with battery-powered nodes can seldom simultaneously meet the design goals of lifetime, cost, sensing reliability and sensing and transmission coverage. Energy-har...
duce system weight and volume, increase operating lifetime, The recent explosion in capability of embedded and portable decrease maintenance costs, and open new frontiers for inele...
This paper presents the design challenges posed by a new class of ultra-low-power devices referred to as Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs). EnHANTs are small, fle...
Maria Gorlatova, Peter R. Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis...
A threshold voltage start-up (TVS) scheme for a boost converter is presented. The TVS converter could start up at the average threshold voltage of the fabrication process, and con...