An improved MOS charge pump circuit for low voltage operations and wireless sensor applications

Author

Aloulou, Rahma ; Mnif, Hassene ; Alicalapa, Frederic ; Loulou, Mourad

Author_Institution

LETI Lab., Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper proposes a new low-voltage and high performance charge pump circuit suitable for implementation in standard CMOS technologies. The proposed MOS charge pumps is an energy harvesting circuit for wireless sensor. This new pump is an improvement of the basic charge transfer switches (CTS´s) to generate higher output voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed circuit have high pumping gain and suitable for low-voltage.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; charge pump circuits; energy harvesting; low-power electronics; wireless sensor networks; CTS; charge transfer switches; energy harvesting circuit; high-performance charge pump circuit; improved MOS charge pump circuit; low-voltage operations; pumping gain; standard CMOS technologies; wireless sensor applications; Charge pumps; Energy harvesting; Integrated circuit modeling; Simulation; Threshold voltage; Transistors; Wireless sensor networks; MOS charge pumps; charge transfer switches (CTS´s); energy harvesting; higher output voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics (ICM), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2207-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2011.6177360

Filename

6177360