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Технически университет - София

Abstract: Improving microelectronic technologies has created various micro-power electronic devices with different practical applications, including wearable electronic modules and systems. Furthermore, the power sources for wearable electronic devices most often work with electrical energy obtained from the environment without using standard batteries. This paper presents the structure and electrical parameters of a circuit configuration realized as a prototype of a low-power AC-DC conversion circuit intended for use as a power supply device for signal processing systems that test various biomedical parameters of the human body. The proposed prototype has to work as a wearable self-powered system that transfers electrical energy obtained through mechanical vibrations in the piezoelectric generator. The obtained electrical energy is used to charge a single low-voltage supercapacitor, which is used as an energy storage element. The proposed circuit configuration is realized with discrete components consisting of a low-voltage bridge rectifier, a low-pass filter, a DC-DC step-down (buck) synchronous converter, a power-controlling system with an error amplifier, and a window detector that produces a “power-good” signal. The power-controlling system allows tuning the output voltage level to around 1.8 V, and the power dissipation for it is less than 0.03 mW. The coefficient of energy efficiency achieved up to 78% for output power levels up to 3.6 mW. Experimental testing was conducted to verify the proposed AC-DC conversion circuit’s effectiveness, as the results confirmed the preliminary theoretical analyses and the derived analytical expressions for the primary electrical parameters.

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