Power Management of Energy-Autonomous Nodes and Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 1399
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electronic engineering; switched capacitor AC/DC–DC converters; energy harvesting; low-power CMOS design; microelectronics
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Interests: electronic engineering; microelectronics; electronic systems; analog integrated circuits; ultra-low-voltage integrated circuits; energy harvesting; low-power CMOS design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is having a pervasive impact on modern society. The ubiquitous character of IoT nodes implies that they must be energy autonomous and untethered. In this regard, power autonomy is achieved by harvesting energy from the environment using transducers, such as photovoltaic (PV) cells, thermoelectric generators (TEG), and vibration transducers. Nevertheless, due to the heavy dependence of their output signal from operating conditions, these transducers are often unsuitable to feed directly to the circuit where they are applied. Therefore, IoT nodes employ a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to adapt the generated power and maximize conversion efficiency. The main components of a PMIC are power converters, clock generators, and control circuitry (amplifiers, filters, references etc.) that must also enable self-startup in critical conditions, i.e., low voltage and low power levels provided by external energy harvesters.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract researchers in the area of electronic circuits to highlight recent advances in power managing architectures, techniques, and sub-block topologies for energy-autonomous nodes and systems.
Dr. Andrea Ballo
Prof. Dr. Alfio Dario Grasso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- low-voltage analog and digital design techniques
- low-power low-voltage analog front-end (AFE) circuits
- circuits for implantable and wearable devices
- energy harvesting
- circuits for the Internet of Things
- switched capacitor converters
- subthreshold analog and digital circuits
- near threshold computing
- bulk-driven amplifiers
- inverter-based amplifiers
- oscillators
- filters
- digitally assisted analog circuits
- multistage amplifiers
- voltage and current references
