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Tunnel FET-based ultra-low power, high-sensitivity UHF RFID rectifier

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Vijaykrishnan NarayananAuthors Info & Claims

ISLPED '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design

Pages 157 - 162

Published: 04 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Hetero-junction Tunnel FET (HTFET) for ultra-low power RF circuit design has been explored at the device and circuit level. In this paper, benchmarking and design insights for optimizing the performance of the TFET based differential drive rectifier is presented. Our evaluation of the HTFET based rectifier demonstrates its promise compared to the state-of-art passive RFIDs. With the 10-stage optimized TFET rectifier at 915 MHz, PCE of 98% with 0.5 nW power consumption, sensitivity of -24dBm for 9 μW P_DC and sensitivity of -33dBm for 0.4μW P_DC were achieved.

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Liu HDatta SNarayanan VChou PHuang RXie YKarnik T(2013)Steep switching tunnel FETProceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design10.5555/2648668.2648707(145-150)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2648668.2648707

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Tunnel FET-based ultra-low power, high-sensitivity UHF RFID rectifier
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
    1. Electronics
2. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
  2. Hardware validation

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ISLPED '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design

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UC Irvine / NTHU Taiwan
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Ru Huang
Peking University
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Penn State / AMD
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Sedighi BPalit IHu XNahas JNiemier MNebel WAtienza D(2015)A CNN-inspired mixed signal processor based on tunnel transistorsProceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition10.5555/2755753.2757079(1150-1155)Online publication date: 9-Mar-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2755753.2757079
Liu HDatta SNarayanan VChou PHuang RXie YKarnik T(2013)Steep switching tunnel FETProceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design10.5555/2648668.2648707(145-150)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2648668.2648707

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