Title
Capacitive coupled full-wave rectifier for rectangular power signals
Abstract
In this paper, a fully integrated bridge rectifier is presented. It is specialized for fully differential rectangular power supply waveforms. The rectifier is implemented in AMS 0.18 μm 6M/1P high voltage CMOS process with metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitors. Combining self driven switches with capacitive coupled switching gates the proposed rectifier shows very little output ripple without the need for a big output capacitance (C <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">out</sub> ). By introducing coupling capacitors (C <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">C</sub> ), switching time is significantly reduced and the losses during polarity change can almost be eliminated. Simulation results show that the output voltage ripple (AV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">out</sub> ) becomes mostly a function of the load current. The output capacitance can be reduced at least by a factor of 2 and still achieve the same output ripple as compared to non-capacitive coupled architectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/BioCAS.2015.7348293
2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
rectangular waveforms,rectifier,CMOS,self-driven,implant,cross-coupled
Switching time,Rectifier,Capacitance,Capacitor,Computer science,Metal rectifier,Electronic engineering,Capacitive sensing,Ripple,Precision rectifier,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2163-4025
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
hans kaim100.34
christian brendler200.34
Viola Rieger332.40
Albrecht Rothermel48117.91