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An Energy Combiner Design for Multiple Microbial Energy Harvesting Sources

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Ridvan Umaz,

Lei WangAuthors Info & Claims

GLSVLSI '17: Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2017

Pages 443 - 446

https://doi.org/10.1145/3060403.3060434

Published: 10 May 2017 Publication History

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Multiple renewable energy sources, such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), can greatly improve the energy output to drive loads for prolonged operation time. However, even designed with exactly the same material, size and structure, the generated voltages at their outputs are different due to the nonlinear effects of microorganisms. Simply combining these sources degrades the overall efficiency and excludes some source contributions. A conventional energy combining platform is not suited for low-voltage energy sources and has limited overall efficiency. In this paper, a new energy combiner circuit is proposed. The proposed circuit can be either power up a load or charge an energy storage such as a rechargeable battery or a supercapacitor. Simulation results are carried out in a 0.13$\mu$m CMOS process and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design.

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GLSVLSI '17: Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2017

May 2017

516 pages

ISBN:9781450349727

DOI:10.1145/3060403

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Laleh Behjat
University of Calgary, Canada
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Jie Han
University of Alberta, Canada
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Aries Design Automation, USA
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Deming Chen
University of Illinois, USA

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