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 …

Ambient RF energy-harvesting technologies for self-sustainable standalone wireless sensor platforms

S Kim, R Vyas, J Bito, K Niotaki, A Collado… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, various ambient energy-harvesting technologies (solar, thermal, wireless, and
piezoelectric) are reviewed in detail and their applicability in the development of self …

A high-efficiency broadband rectenna for ambient wireless energy harvesting

C Song, Y Huang, J Zhou, J Zhang… - … on Antennas and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel broadband rectenna for ambient wireless energy harvesting
over the frequency band from 1.8 to 2.5 GHz. First of all, the characteristics of the ambient …

A novel six-band dual CP rectenna using improved impedance matching technique for ambient RF energy harvesting

C Song, Y Huang, P Carter, J Zhou… - … on Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel six-band dual circular polarization (CP) rectenna for ambient radio frequency (RF)
energy harvesting is presented. Due to the nonlinearity and complex input impedance of the …

A novel ultra-lightweight multiband rectenna on paper for RF energy harvesting in the next generation LTE bands

V Palazzi, J Hester, J Bito, F Alimenti… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a novel compact ultralightweight multiband RF energy harvester
fabricated on a paper substrate. The proposed rectenna is designed to operate in all …

Harvesting systems for rf energy: trends, challenges, techniques, and tradeoffs

S Muhammad, JJ Tiang, SK Wong, AH Rambe, I Adam… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The RFEH design challenges can be broadly classified into overall radio frequency direct
current (RF-to-DC) power conversion efficiency (PCE), form factor, operational bandwidth …

RF energy harvesting for embedded systems: A survey of tradeoffs and methodology

T Soyata, L Copeland… - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of passive Radio Frequency (RF) energy reception and
power harvesting circuits for isolated communications and computing systems lacking …

Multiband ambient RF energy harvesting circuit design for enabling batteryless sensors and IoT

U Muncuk, K Alemdar, JD Sarode… - IEEE Internet of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (RF-EH) allows powering low-power
electronic devices without wires, batteries, and dedicated energy sources. Current RF-EH …

Electromagnetic energy harvesting and wireless power transmission: A unified approach

A Costanzo, M Dionigi, D Masotti… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a rigorous procedure for the circuit-level analysis and design of entire systems,
developed to provide power wirelessly, is presented. A unified theoretical approach is first …

A compact rectenna system with high conversion efficiency for wireless energy harvesting

Q Awais, Y **, HT Chattha, M Jamil, H Qiang… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel coplanar waveguide-fed rectenna with high efficiency is proposed and implemented
in this paper for 2.45-GHz Bluetooth/wireless local area network applications. The antenna …