A self-powered power conditioning IC for piezoelectric energy harvesting from short-duration vibrations

• Main Authors: Darmayuda, I Made, Gao, Yuan, Tan, Meng Tong, Cheng, San-Jeow, Zheng, Yuanjin, Je, Minkyu, Heng, Chun-Huat
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95907; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11457
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This brief presents a piezoelectric vibration power conditioning integrated circuit for energy autonomous sensor applications. The proposed circuit includes a negative voltage converter, a noninverting buck-boost converter working in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), and a switching clock generator. Optimum load resistance is synthesized by the DCM buck-boost converter to achieve maximum power extraction, and system conduction loss is reduced by a novel arrangement of a current rectification diode within the buck-boost converter. This circuit is able to harness power from short-duration vibration and self starts up with a minimum 0.9-V input voltage. The proposed circuit has been implemented in a standard 0.18-μm CMOS process with 0.05-mm2 active area and achieved a maximum power conversion efficiency value of 54%.