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This Chapter concentrates on active-diode based rectifiers for electromagnetic transducers. Thereby, particular concerns are the required high efficiency and low voltage drops over a wide voltage range. Furthermore, it is addressed how to compensate the high impedance of the used transducers. Both, a full-wave rectifier, as well as a Delon voltage doubler circuit are realized with active diodes. Measurement results show high efficiencies over a wide voltage range. Due to their low voltage drop, the achieved power extraction figures are used in later chapters as a reference.
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Maurath, D., Manoli, Y. (2015). Low-Voltage Rectification of High-Resistive Sources. In: CMOS Circuits for Electromagnetic Vibration Transducers. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9272-1_5
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