A High-Voltage Dual-Input Buck Converter with Bidirectional Inductor Current for Triboelectric Energy-Harvesting Applications

Junyoung Maeng; Inho Park; Minseob Shim; Junwon Jeong; Chulwoo Kim

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2020.3012991

A High-Voltage Dual-Input Buck Converter with Bidirectional Inductor Current for Triboelectric Energy-Harvesting Applications

Junyoung Maeng, Inho Park, Minseob Shim, Junwon Jeong, Chulwoo Kim

School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

This article presents a high-voltage (HV) dual-input buck converter with a bidirectional inductor current (I L) and a fully integrated maximum power point tracking circuit for triboelectric (TE) energy-harvesting applications. The proposed converter regulates HV inputs through a single shared inductor, and HV inputs can be isolated without using an additional HV protection circuit. In addition, the proposed diode-based HV sampling circuit can accomplish high ac voltage sampling and peak detection to perform the fractional open-circuit voltage method without any external components. Fabricated using a 180-nm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process, the proposed system with a self-manufactured polytetrafluroethylene (PTFE)-based TE nanogenerator can regulate two HV inputs up to 70 V and achieve a power conversion efficiency of 84.7% and an end-to-end efficiency of 75.6%, which are 30.2% and 22.7% better than prior work, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	9165845
Pages (from-to)	541-553
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2020.3012991
Publication status	Published - 2021 Feb

Keywords

Buck converter
dc-dc converter
dual input (DI)
energy harvesting (EH)
high-voltage (HV) sampling
inductor sharing
three-level gate driver (TLGD)
triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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