MLMinbok Lee

Minbok Lee

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Minbok Lee has a total of 4 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:

  • Jaeha Kim

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, South Korea

    1 shared publication
  • Joonseok Yang

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, South Korea

    1 shared publication
  • Myeong-Jae Park

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, South Korea

    1 shared publication
  • Sung-Youb Jung

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, South Korea

    1 shared publication

Latest Publications

  • Design and Analysis of Energy-Efficient Single-Pulse Piezoelectric Energy Harvester and Power Management IC for Battery-Free Wireless Remote Switch Applications

    by Minbok Lee, Joonseok Yang, Myeong-Jae Park, Sung-Youb Jung, Jaeha Kim

    This paper presents a piezoelectric-based power management solution for battery-free wireless remote switches (BWSs). The proposed BWS IC, including a piezoelectric (PE) energy harvester and a buck converter, can collect the energy generated by a single PE-button press, and then supply that energy to a wireless transmitter to send a message. By combining a rectifier using the synchronized switch harvesting on inductor technique and a 6:1 series-parallel switched-capacitor converter, the proposed PE energy harvester can maximize the collected amount of energy, while supplying it at a low output voltage. In addition, by employing a switching-based start-up scheme and a variable ON-time pulse-frequency modulation scheme, the proposed buck converter can reduce the loss associated with charging the output capacitor during start-up, and then deliver the largest possible energy to the load, while maintaining low voltage ripples and high-power efficiency. A prototype BWS IC fabricated with high-voltage 250-nm CMOS technology was shown to be capable of harvesting a total energy of 246 μJ from a single button-pressing of a 300-mm² lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate PE disc. More than 200 μJ was delivered to the load, sufficient to transmit a 4-B-long message via a 2.4-GHz wireless USB channel over a 10-m distance.