IEICE Transactions on Electronics · 2008 · 16 citations · 7 references
Electric BatteryElectrical EngineeringEnergy HarvestingStep-down CaseEngineeringHybrid CapacitorEnergy EfficiencyEnergy ConversionEnergy ManagementBattery-powered Electronic ProductsBattery ConfigurationPower Electronics ConverterEnergy StorageElectric Power ConversionBatteriesPower InverterPower ElectronicsLinear Regulators
For battery-powered electronic products, one way to extend battery life is to use a versatile step-up/step-down DC-DC converter. A new versatile step-up/step-down switched-capacitor-based converter structure is proposed, and its efficiency is analyzed. In the step-down case, the efficiency is the same as, or even better than the efficiency of linear regulators.
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