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CMOS Indoor Light Energy Harvesting System for Wireless Sensing Applications

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Authors:
  1. Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho

    1. Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL–ADEETC), Lisboa, Portugal

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  2. Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino

    1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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  • Discusses several energy sources which can be used to power energy harvesting systems and includes an overview of PV cell technologies
  • Includes an introduction to voltage step-up circuits, with a special emphasis on switched-capacitors (SC) DC-DC voltage converters, energy storing devices and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques
  • Presents a complete design flow of an indoor light energy harvesting system designed and implemented in a CMOS technology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 1-5

  3. Energy Harvesting Electronic Systems

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 7-42

  4. Photovoltaic Cell Technologies

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 43-71

  5. Voltage Step-up Circuits

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 73-115

  6. Proposed Energy Harvesting System

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 117-156

  7. Layout of the System

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 157-177

  8. Experimental Evaluation of the Prototype

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 179-195

  9. Conclusions and Future Perspectives

    • Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino
    Pages 197-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-216
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This book discusses in detail the CMOS implementation of energy harvesting. The authors describe an integrated, indoor light energy harvesting system, based on a controller circuit that dynamically and automatically adjusts its operation to meet the actual light circumstances of the environment where the system is placed. The system is intended to power a sensor node, enabling an autonomous wireless sensor network (WSN). Although designed to cope with indoor light levels, the system is also able to work with higher levels, making it an all-round light energy harvesting system. The discussion includes experimental data obtained from an integrated manufactured prototype, which in conjunction with a photovoltaic (PV) cell, serves as a proof of concept of the desired energy harvesting system.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL–ADEETC), Lisboa, Portugal

    Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho

  • Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CMOS Indoor Light Energy Harvesting System for Wireless Sensing Applications

  • Authors: Carlos Manuel Ferreira Carvalho, Nuno Filipe Silva Veríssimo Paulino

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21617-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21616-4Published: 10 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37360-7Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21617-1Published: 30 July 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Energy Harvesting, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

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