On-chip reconfigurable switched-capacitor DC–DC converter for indoor PV energy harvesting

• Main Authors: Xiao, Zhekai, Khoa, Bui Anh, Siek, Liter
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Switched-capacitor; Energy Harvesting
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87267; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44359
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A reconfigurable switched-capacitor DC-DC converter is presented for indoor photovoltaic energy harvesting. A uniform hysteresis controller regulates the PV cell voltage at 1.5 V to extract the maximum power from the PV cell and regulates the load voltage at 0.9 V. To minimise the conversion loss, t...