A Buck-Boost Photovoltaic Energy Harvester Employing Adaptive Power-Scalable MPPT Control Achieving >98% MPPT Efficiency and >82% Power Conversion Efficiency Across a 100,000× Dynamic Range

Y. Liu; H. Zhang; M. Becermiş; Jieyu  Liao; M. Dandekar; K.A.A. Makinwa; Q. Fan

doi:10.1109/ESSERC66193.2025.11214032

A Buck-Boost Photovoltaic Energy Harvester Employing Adaptive Power-Scalable MPPT Control Achieving >98% MPPT Efficiency and >82% Power Conversion Efficiency Across a 100,000× Dynamic Range

Y. Liu, H. Zhang, M. Becermiş, Jieyu Liao, M. Dandekar, K.A.A. Makinwa, Q. Fan

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Abstract

This paper presents a photovoltaic energy harvesting (PVEH) system achieving both high Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) efficiency ($\eta_{\text {MPPT }}$) and power conversion efficiency ($\left.\eta_{\text {CONV }}\right)$ across a wide input power dynamic range (DR), employing a direct input power-to-digital converter (PDC) and an adaptive power-scalable MPPT scheme. The proposed PVEH achieves $>98 \%$ (with a peak of 99.9 %) $\eta_{\text {MPPT }}$ across a $100,000 \times$ DR $(10 \mu ~\mathrm{W}$ to 1 W), representing a $10 \times$ improvement over the state-of-the-art, as well as a competitive $\eta_{\text{CONV}}$ of $>82 \%$ (with a peak of $\mathbf{9 2 \%}$) across the same DR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceeding of the 2025 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	69-72
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3315-2539-2
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3315-2540-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSERC66193.2025.11214032
Publication status	Published - 2025
Event	2025 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC) - Munich, Germany Duration: 8 Sept 2025 → 11 Sept 2025

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Conference	2025 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC)
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	8/09/25 → 11/09/25

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Maximum power point trackers
Photovoltaic systems
Adaptive systems
Power demand
Noise
Europe
Dynamic range
Power conversion
Internet of Things
Energy harvesting

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Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Becermiş, M., Liao, J., Dandekar, M., Makinwa, K. A. A., & Fan, Q. (2025). A Buck-Boost Photovoltaic Energy Harvester Employing Adaptive Power-Scalable MPPT Control Achieving >98% MPPT Efficiency and >82% Power Conversion Efficiency Across a 100,000× Dynamic Range. In Proceeding of the 2025 IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC) (pp. 69-72). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSERC66193.2025.11214032

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A Buck-Boost Photovoltaic Energy Harvester Employing Adaptive Power-Scalable MPPT Control Achieving >98% MPPT Efficiency and >82% Power Conversion Efficiency Across a 100,000× Dynamic Range. / Liu, Y.; Zhang, H.; Becermiş, M. et al.
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