Print Email Facebook Twitter Single-Channel Heterogeneous-Source Energy Harvesting PMIC Design Title Single-Channel Heterogeneous-Source Energy Harvesting PMIC Design Author van der Velden, Joram (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Serdijn, W.A. (mentor) Campos Martins, G. (mentor) Du, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Electrical Engineering Date 2021-08-24 Abstract This work proposes an energy harvesting platform that is able to convert power from both DC sources (photo-voltaic cells and TEGs) as well as piezo element sources. It does so only using a single input channel to which a single harvester can be connected. The proposed system is able to differentiate between the two source types and adjust the power converter configuration accordingly.For the DC sources, a novel switched-capacitor power converter (SCPC) is proposed, that is able to convert the energy from a harvester that has a maximum power point (MPP) output voltage of 170mV to 5V and a maximum power point output power of 10uW to 50mW. This DC-DC converter offers 119 different positive voltage conversion ratios, with a maximum voltage conversion ratio of 16, using four in-package capacitors. As a result of this high number of conversion ratios, the MPP output voltage of the harvester and the input voltage of the power converter are matched accurately, causing the harvesting efficiency to be very high. A maximum harvesting efficiency of 96.2% is found in simulations. For the piezo element sources, the concept of a flipping-capacitor rectifier (FCR) has been adjusted to work in harmony with the designed SCPC. In a steady-state condition, the capacitors of the SCPC reach specific voltages, such that they can create evenly spaced voltage steps for the flipping operation. With this technique, a voltage flipping efficiency of 0.9375 and a theoretical maximum output power improvement rate (MOPIR) of 32 can be reached. Due to losses in the system, simulation results show a MOPIR of up to 20.0, which is still significantly higher than the state-of-art. The system is designed to work with harvesters with a piezo capacitance of up to 100nF, an excitation frequency of 1Hz to 200Hz and an equivalent FBR maximum power point output power of 1uW to 50mW. An implementation of the proposed system is discussed and simulated. The total active silicon area for the designed system is 2.12mm2 in a 0.18 um TSMC technology. Subject energy harvestingheterogeneous sourcessingle-channelsingle-inputDC-DC converterswitched-capacitor (SC)charge pumpPiezoelectric energy harvester (PEH)maximum output power improvement rate (MOPIR)flipping-capacitor rectifier (FCR)synchronized switch harvesting on capacitors (SSHC)capacitor re-usesource differentiationCMOS To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d75ba30-0ebc-47ce-9c64-75a65a88dbe5 Embargo date 2022-08-24 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Joram van der Velden Files PDF Thesis_Joram_V1.pdf 3.83 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5d75ba30-0ebc-47ce-9c64-75a65a88dbe5/datastream/OBJ/view