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Power management integrated circuit

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Component design and testing for a miniaturised autonomous sensor based on a nanowire materials platform

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez, Naser Khosro Pour

We present the design considerations of an autonomous wireless sensor and discuss the fabrication and testing of the various components including the energy harvester, the active sensing devices and the power management and sensor interface circuits. A com ...

Springer2014

Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice

Mehrdad Azizighannad

Brown adipose fat tissue of a mouse dissipates the animal’s energy in the form of heat. Chronically recording the temperature of this tissue helps biologists to study the metabolism of the animal and gain new insights about the obesity in humans. Such temp ...

EPFL2014

An Implantable Bio-Micro-system for Drug Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Enver Gürhan Kilinç

Multi-target and continuous monitoring by wireless implantable devices is of increasing interest for personalized therapy. In this work an implantable system is presented which is capable of measuring different drugs with Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) method. Th ...

2013

A sub-µA power management circuit in 0.18µm CMOS for energy harvesters

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Christian Robert, Gabriele Tasselli

We explore a miniature sensor node that could be placed in an environment which would interrogate, take decisions and transmit autonomously and seamlessly without the need of a battery. With the system completely powered by an energy harvester for autonomo ...

2013

An ultra-low power energy-efficient microsystem for hydrogen gas sensing applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

This paper presents a fully integrated power management and sensing microsystem that harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module for autonomous operation of a miniaturized hydrogen sensor. In order to measure H-2 concentration, conductance ...

Springer US2013

Cell Transformations and Physical Design Techniques for 3D Monolithic Integrated Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Shashi Kanth Bobba

3D monolithic integration (3DMI), also termed as sequential integration, is a potential technology for future gigascale circuits. In 3DMI technology the 3D contacts, connecting different active layers, are in the order of few 100 nm. Given the advantage of ...

2013

A miniaturised autonomous sensor based on nanowire materials platform: the SiNAPS mote

Maher Kayal, Naser Khosro Pour

A micro-power energy harvesting system based on core(crystalline Si)-shell(amorphous Si) nanowire solar cells together with a nanowire-modified CMOS sensing platform have been developed to be used in a dust-sized autonomous chemical sensor node. The mote ( ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

A Miniaturized Autonomous Microsystem for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

This paper presents a fully integrated, ultra-low power microsystem that is used for hydrogen gas sensing in an autonomous wireless sensor node. The proposed circuit harvests solar energy from a micro-power photovoltaic module to measure temperature and hy ...

Ieee2012

Contributions au domaine de la commande des entraînements synchrones haute vitesse : étude formelle, interfaces de puissance et modulation par amplitude d'impulsions

Christian Rod

Currently, the different pollutant emissions caused by the use of fossil energies are an increasingly important concern and numerous studies aim at developing technological solutions allowing the progressive replacement of the fossil energies by more susta ...

EPFL2012

Fully integrated ultra-low power management system for micro-power solar energy harvesting applications

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Naser Khosro Pour

A fully integrated, area-efficient and ultra-low power management system for micro-power solar energy harvesting applications is proposed. This system harvests energy from miniaturised solar cells connected in series to charge a rechargeable microbattery. ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2012

Modular DC/DC Converter for DC Distribution and Collection Networks

Stephan Kenzelmann

A major change in the electrical transmission and distribution system is taking place in Europe at the moment. The shift from a centralised energy production to a distributed generation profoundly changes the behaviour of the grid. Environmental or social ...

EPFL2012