Title
An Optically-Powered 432 MHz Wireless Tag for Batteryless Internet-of-Things Applications
Abstract
This paper presents an optically-powered wireless tag, integrating a charge pump (CP) and a low-power RF transmitter for batteryless Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The proposed charge pump with hysteresis regulation mechanism (HRM) powers the transmitter circuit using indoor light energy. The charge pump enables the transmitter whenever the output capacitor stores sufficient energy and guarantees a short period signal transmission. The proposed low-power transmitter contains the subharmonically injection-locked PLL and the capacitive coupling technique to achieve a large frequency multiplication ratio. The proposed batteryless wireless chip is fabricated in 0.18- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> CMOS process. The measurement results demonstrate that the proposed charge pump provides a 1.1 to 1.3 V hysteresis regulated voltage under indoor light illumination larger than 300 lux. The charge pump achieves 84.1% peak efficiency and the communication distance of 3 meters is demonstrated while only consuming <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$248~\mu \text{W}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TCSI.2019.2927397
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optical transmitters,Radio frequency,Phase locked loops,Charge pumps,Capacitors,Wireless communication,Voltage-controlled oscillators
Transmitter,Phase-locked loop,Capacitor,Radio transmitter design,Voltage,Radio frequency,Electronic engineering,Charge pump,Electrical engineering,Capacitive coupling,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
66
9
1549-8328
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hao-Chung Cheng1248.46
Yen-ting Chen216218.83
Po-Hung Chen36511.24
Yu-Te Liao43014.87