Energy harvesting for structural health monitoring sensor networks

G Park, T Rosing, MD Todd, CR Farrar… - Journal of …, 2008‏ - ascelibrary.org
This paper reviews the development of energy harvesting for low-power embedded
structural health monitoring (SHM) sensing systems. A statistical pattern recognition …

RF energy harvesting and wireless power transfer for energy autonomous wireless devices and RFIDs

K Niotaki, NB Carvalho, A Georgiadis… - IEEE journal of …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and wireless power transmission (WPT)
technologies—both near-field and far-field—have attracted significant interest for wireless …

Harvesting wireless power: Survey of energy-harvester conversion efficiency in far-field, wireless power transfer systems

CR Valenta, GD Durgin - IEEE microwave magazine, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea of wireless power transfer (WPT) has been around since the inception of electricity.
In the late 19th century, Nikola Tesla described the freedom to transfer energy between two …

Microwave and millimeter wave power beaming

CT Rodenbeck, PI Jaffe, BH Strassner II… - IEEE journal of …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power beaming is the efficient point-to-point transfer of electrical energy across free space
by a directive electromagnetic beam. This paper clarifies the basic principles of power …

Microwave power transmission: Historical milestones and system components

B Strassner, K Chang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave power transmission (MPT) is the wireless transfer of large amounts of power at
microwave frequencies from one location to another. MPT research has been driven …

Design of a high-efficiency 2.45-GHz rectenna for low-input-power energy harvesting

H Sun, Y Guo, M He, Z Zhong - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a high-efficiency 2.45-GHz rectenna that can harvest low input RF power
effectively. A new antenna with a simple structure and high gain of 8.6 dBi is proposed for …

5.8-GHz circularly polarized dual-diode rectenna and rectenna array for microwave power transmission

YJ Ren, K Chang - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2006‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a new circularly polarized rectenna whose rectifying circuit includes two
diodes. The rectenna consists of a coplanar stripline (CPS) truncated patch antenna and …

Maximum achievable power conversion efficiency obtained through an optimized rectenna structure for RF energy harvesting

YS Chen, CW Chiu - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-efficiency rectennas for radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting have been studied for
decades, but most of the literature straightforwardly applies the rectenna aiming at dedicated …

A compact 2.45-GHz broadband rectenna using grounded coplanar waveguide

MJ Nie, XX Yang, GN Tan, B Han - IEEE antennas and wireless …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a compact 2.45 GHz broadband rectenna using the grounded coplanar
waveguide (GCPW). A new broadband slot antenna fed by GCPW with a high gain of 10 dBi …