• DocumentCode
    2415365
  • Title

    A 2.4GHz Efficiency-Enhanced Rectifier for Wireless Telemetry

  • Author

    Chen, Ke-Hou ; Lu, Jian-Hao ; Liu, Shen-Iuan

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    16-19 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    555
  • Lastpage
    558
  • Abstract
    A 2.4 GHz full-wave AC-to-DC rectifier for wireless telemetry applications is presented. A conventional full-wave rectifier using diode-connected MOS transistors suffers from the power loss due to the intrinsic threshold voltage. In this paper, a full-wave rectifier using a transformer is presented to improve the efficiency. It has been fabricated by using the MOS transistors with medium threshold voltages in 0.18 mum CMOS process. When input power ranges from 6 dBm~12 dBm, this proposed 2.4 GHz full-wave rectifier improves the efficiency of 2.5%, compared with the conventional one.
  • Keywords
    AC-AC power convertors; CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; rectifiers; telemetry; CMOS process; MOS transistors; efficiency-enhanced rectifier; frequency 2.4 GHz; full-wave AC-to-DC rectifier; size 0.18 mum; transformer circuit; wireless telemetry; CMOS process; Capacitors; Circuits; Diodes; MOSFETs; Power conversion; Radiofrequency identification; Rectifiers; Telemetry; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2007. CICC '07. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1623-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1623-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2007.4405793
  • Filename
    4405793