Improving Temperature Stability of Dickson Charge Pump Rectifiers for Battery-Free Wireless Sensing Applications

Recent Development of High-PCE CMOS RF-DC Rectifier With Wide PIN Dynamic Range: Strategies and Trends—Review

“…The Dickson rectifier in Figure 1 was demonstrated in the '70s by John F. Dickson [10]. In recent times, due to the practicality and simplicity of the Dickson rectifier, it has commonly been found and implemented in various charge pump and voltage doubler circuitry [11]- [16]. The coupling capacitor C1 charges during VRF < -VDIODE through D1 and functions as a doubler during VRF > VDIODE through D2 to transfer the charges to CL to generate VOUT = 2(|VRF| -VDIODE).…”