A PV-assisted 10-mV Startup Boost Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

Conference paper (2022)

Authors

Yansong Liang Student
Ruizhi Wang Student
Zhongsheng Chen Hunan University of Science and Technology
S. Du Electronic Instrumentation - EEMCS
Research Group
Electronic Instrumentation (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2022 Yansong Liang, Ruizhi Wang, Zhongsheng Chen, S. Du
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS48785.2022.9937311
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Electronic Instrumentation

Abstract

This paper presents a boost converter for thermo-electric energy harvesting with photovoltaic (PV)-assisted startup. The converter employs a new two-phase startup architecture and the PV cell is used in the first phase to provide an initial high voltage for startup. This high voltage drives the boost converter to charge a startup capacitor, which powers the main control block to continue self-startup in phase 2. The proposed system is designed and simulated in a $0.18\mu{\mathrm{m}}$ BCD process. The simulations show successful cold-start from 10 mV thermoelectric voltage. In addition, maximum power point tracking and zero current switching techniques are adopted in the system to achieve 91% peak efficiency. The proposed system can finish the cold-start within 250 ms.

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