A 70-V Fully Integrated Dual-SSHC Rectifier for Triboelectric Energy Harvesting with Full-Digital Duty-Cycle-Based MPPT Achieving 598% Power Extraction Enhancement

A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a mechanoelectrical transducer promising to harvest ambient mechanical energy. A typical TENG model contains an alternating current source <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">(IT)</tex> in parallel with a small and time-varying capacitor <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">(CT)</tex> (Fig. 1 top-left), which introduces asymmetric electrical characteristics. Passive dual-output rectifiers (DORs) were proposed in [1] and [2], to tackle the asymmetric outputs, but they obtained low energy extraction performance due to energy loss on charging CT. Conventional active rectifiers were employed to improve performance, such as the bias-flip technique [3] [4]; however, a 1 's of mH large inductor is required to achieve good voltage flipping performance due to the high open-circuit voltage <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">(VOC)</tex> of TENG. Although a capacitor-based bias-flip rectifier eliminates the use of an inductor [5], it was designed for piezoelectric transducers (PTs) and cannot be used in TENGs with varying <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">CT</tex> . Besides, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for TENGs with active rectifiers has been seldom researched. A fractional open-circuit voltage (FOCV) technique was applied to triboelectric energy harvesting in [1] and [2], but measuring high Voc (hundreds of Volts) is very challenging. A duty-cycle-based (DCB) MPPT technique [6] was recently proposed which detects MPP without measuring any voltage; however, this technique was not suitable for TENGs with varying C <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">T</inf> .