Rf-powered systems using steep-slope devices
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...We observe substantial variation in power, even over a few milliseconds for RF in Figure 3a) with the ratio between the maximum and minimum power over this period around 250× [20], [25], [26]....
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...Finally, various circuit and architecturelevel techniques can be applied to reduce the power: adoption of emerging technologies like Tunnel-FET [20], low power sub-threshold circuits, dark silicon-aware architectures [34], clock gating, dynamic-voltage-frequency-scaling (DVFS) and Dynamic-Adjusting Threshold-Voltage Scheme (DATS) [35] etc....
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...Ambient power sources and harvesting techniques Typical ambient energy sources that could be harvested to power an embedded system include solar energy, radiofrequency (RF) radiation, piezoelectric effect and thermal gradients [20]....
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...Generally, the widely used ambient energy sources include the radio-frequency (RF) signal, piezoelectric energy, photovoltaic cells, and thermoelectric devices [19, 20, 21]....
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...Nonvolatile memories (NVM) are being actively explored with the objectives to achieve zero stand-by leakage and high integration density, and thereby attain a large boost in the energy efficiency and storage capacity of on-chip caches for embedded applications and energy autonomous systems [1-5]....
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...I. INTRODUCTION SOME technical reports predicted that the number of smartsensors will reach to trillions in the near future [1]....
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...where Gt and Gr are the antenna gains with respect to an isotropic radiator of the transmitting and receiving antennas respectively, λ is the wavelength, and ηharvester is the PCE of the power harvester consisting of impedance matching network and RF-to-DC rectifier [16]....
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...(1) with λ/2 dipole antenna [16] 1mW 0....
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...(1) with λ/2 dipole antenna [16] A 40 W cellular station Typical sensitivity range of cellphones: 10~10 μW...
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...A TFET is essentially reverse-biased, gated p-i-n tunnel diode with asymmetrical source/drain doping, whose on-state drain-source current is enabled by gate-controlled band-to-band tunneling, and off-state current is determined by the reverse-biased diode leakage [11][12][13]....
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...Steep-slope TFETs have been proposed to further scale the power supply in ultra-low-power applications [11]....
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...Steep-slope tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) have become a promising candidate to replace CMOS FETs with higher power-efficiency for low-voltage digital applications due to the tunneling characteristics at a low power supply [11][12][13]....
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...In conventional designs, Schottky diode has thus been utilized because of small turn-on voltage [26]....
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