A Bipolar ±13 mV Self-Starting and 85% Peak Efficiency DC/DC Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

A Bipolar ±13 mV Self-Starting and 85% Peak Efficiency DC/DC Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

This paper presents a novel converter for boosting the low-voltage output of thermoelectric energy harvesters to power standard electronic circuits. The converter can start up from a fully depleted state of the system off a bipolar ±13 mV input and can boost it to output voltages of up to 5 V. The c...

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Main Authors: Harald Dillersberger, Bernd Deutschmann, Douglas Tham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
energy harvesting
thermoelectric generator
bipolar input
ultra-low voltage
impedance matching
transformer reuse
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/20/5501

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