High-efficiency CMOS rectifier for fully integrated mW wireless power transfer

Abstract

Design and measurement results are presented for a 0.18 μm CMOS full-wave rectifier architecture with 85.8% measured power efficiency at 40.68 MHz. The rectifier targets fully integrated power harvesting biomedical implant and lab-on-chip applications that use on-chip or mm-sized near-field inductively coupled wireless power transfer receivers. The rectifier uses feedback from the output to lower the voltage drop and increase the power efficiency. The rectifier achieves the highest measured efficiency in its class.