A Step-up mu-Power Converter for Solar Energy Harvesting Applications, using Hill Climbing Maximum Power Point Tracking

This paper presents a step-up micro-power converter for solar energy harvesting applications. The circuit uses a SC voltage tripler architecture, controlled by an MPPT circuit based on the Hill Climbing algorithm. This circuit was designed in a 0.13 mu m CMOS technology in order to work with an a-Si...

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Main Author: Carvalho, Carlos (author)
Other Authors: Lameiro, José (author), Paulino, Nuno (author), Lavareda, Guilherme (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2071
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/2071