A 40.68-MHz Active Rectifier Using an Inverter-Based Conduction-Time Generator for Wirelessly Powered Implantable Medical Devices

This brief presents a 40.68-MHz active rectifier with a near-zero-quiescent-current inverter-based conduction-time generator for wirelessly powered implantable devices. By using the proposed scheme, the rectifier achieves near-optimum switching operation with negligible turn-on and -off delays and thus high power conversion efficiency even at very high frequency such as 40.68 MHz. The active rectifier was fabricated in a standard 0.18 mu m CMOS process. With a 500-Omega load resistor, the measured power conversion efficiency is higher than 87% through the whole input range of 1.2 V to 1.8 V, and a peak efficiency of 93.3% is achieved with 1.2 V input amplitude.

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This paper presents a 40.68 MHz active rectifier with a near-zero-quiescent-current inverter-based conduction-time generator for wirelessly powered implantable devices. The proposed scheme achieves near-optimum switching operation with high power conversion efficiency even at very high frequency. The active rectifier is fabricated in a standard 0.18 μm CMOS process and achieves high efficiency throughout the input range.