Session 20 overview: Energy harvesting and SC power conversion: Analog subcommittee

The efficient control, storage, and distribution of energy are worldwide challenges, and are increasingly important areas of analog circuit research. Switched-capacitors are becoming a valuable alternative to inductive converters even for large power levels (on the order of several Watts) with high efficiency and extremely fast transient response. The session starts with 5 papers on switched-capacitor converters, ranging from large conversion ratio, large power and Dynamic Voltage Scaling. On the other hand, both battery-powered and battery-less wireless sensing applications can be enabled by harvesting energy from various energy sources. The second part of the session focuses on energy harvesting techniques and in particular on Maximum Power Point Tracking, energy recycling and zero current detection for photovoltaic, electrostatic, and electromagnetic energy sources.