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CMOS Circuits for Electromagnetic Vibration Transducers

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The needs and requirements on micro energy harvesting ask for a profound analysis and awareness about the actual intention and fields of application. This introduction starts off with an overview about the beneficial application perspectives when using micro-scale sensor systems. It is found that beside the front-end devices an efficient and smart infrastructure is crucial. Beside communication, this infrastructure comprises the energy supply and power processing of mostly autonomous and distributed systems. Yet, this is the link to the necessity and configuration of micro energy harvesting. Hence, promising energy harvesting transducer concepts and excitation sources are introduced. This is followed by presenting the actual harvesting and power management circuits. This leads to the exposition of the basic questions to be answered and the concrete aims to be accomplished within this book.

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