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An Efficient Fully Bootstrapped RF-to-DC Rectifier for Implantable Biomedical Applications in CMOS Technology

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Electrical power and machines engineering.

Abstract

This paper introduces a high-efficiency and a wide-frequency band RF-to-DC rectifier with an enhanced voltage conversion ratio (VCR) for implantable biomedical devices. The rectifier utilizes bootstrapped CMOS devices for threshold potential reduction. These devices (NMOS and PMOS) have bootstrapped gates. This is used to reduce the needed RF input voltage which turns rectifying devices ON, effectively adding DC voltages (positive or negative, respectively) to the input RF signal. This allows rectifier devices to conduct at lower input RF voltage levels. The proposed RF-to-DC rectifier circuit is designed and simulated in 180nm CMOS technology. Simulation results show a peak power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 81.3% at RF input power of -12.4dBm, with a load resistor and capacitor of 12 kΩ and 1pF, respectively. With the same loading, the proposed rectifier achieves a peak VCR of 87% at RF peak voltage of 1V. The obtained dynamic range of the proposed circuit is 15.7dB (PCE > 30%) at an input frequency of 402MHz. With an input frequency of 434MHz, the proposed circuit has a PCE of 80.85% at -12.8dBm RF input power, while having a load resistor and capacitor of 12 kΩ and 1pF, respectively. The rectifier achieves 87.14% VCR, and a dynamic range of 15.4dB (PCE>30%).

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2024.307000.1358

Keywords

Biomedical implants, bootstrapped rectifier, power conversion efficiency (PCE), wireless power transfer (WPT)

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Tammam

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

asmaa.sayed@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0009-0001-2914-0168

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

m-abbas@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Khalil

Last Name

Yousef

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

kyousef@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-2028-113X

Volume

52

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

50144

Issue Date

2024-11-01

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2024-07-25

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

88

Page End

102

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/article_383944.html

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Research Paper

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1,438

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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An Efficient Fully Bootstrapped RF-to-DC Rectifier for Implantable Biomedical Applications in CMOS Technology

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26 Dec 2024