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voltage multiplier

07 Jan 2019 » power

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A capacitative voltage multiplier uses diodes and a ‘flying’ capacitor to double or invert an input voltage. A clock signal and its complementary signal bias the flying capacitors. With N flying capacitors, the output voltage is:

\[VOUT = (N+1) * VIN\]

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