Recycling ambient microwave energy with broad-band rectenna arrays

By J. Hagerty, F.B. Helmbrecht, William H Mccalpin, Z. Popovic. IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2004

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Strategy for Microwave Energy Harvesting From Ambient Field or a Feeding Source (2012, background): “environment to boost the life of the device battery [35], [36].”
A Dual-Port Triple-Band L-Probe Microstrip Patch Rectenna for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting (2017, methodology): “When the number of ports is large, the rectifier outputs can be combined in series or parallel and the optimal load resistor should be optimized to achieve the optimal combining efficiency [6], [9].”
Harvesting Wireless Power: Survey of Energy-Harvester Conversion Efficiency in Far-Field, Wireless Power Transfer Systems (2014, background): “In some cases, multiband [17]–[20], or wide band [22]–[24] energy harvesters have been utilized to take advantage of ambient RF energy or signals from multiple bands.”
A Compact Dual-Band Rectenna Using Slot-Loaded Dual Band Folded Dipole Antenna (2013, background): “Nowadays, various approaches for designing rectennas have been considered in the literature including single-band operation [2], [3], broadband approaches [4], and multiband designs [5]–[7].”
Electromagnetic wireless nanosensor networks (2010, neutral): “Alternatively, nanoscale rectennas [25], i.”
Wi-fi backscatter (2014, methodology): “The harvesting circuit we use is similar to those proposed in prior systems [12, 26, 23].”
A Compact 2.45-GHz Broadband Rectenna Using Grounded Coplanar Waveguide (2015, background): “For energy harvesting [3][4], rectennas should operate on wide bandwidths.”
Design of a 2.45 GHz rectenna for electromagnetic (EM) energy scavenging (2010, background): “Considerable interest has been directed in the recent years towards low profile, low power, energy efficient and self-sustainable sensor networks [2-4].”
Optimal Waveforms for Efficient Wireless Power Transmission (2014, background): “Energy harvesting solutions, where energy from a selected source such as solar, electromagnetic (EM), thermal, or kinetic is captured and converted to dc power has had a great development in the last years [1], [2].”
RF Energy Harvesting and Transport for Wireless Sensor Network Applications: Principles and Requirements (2013, background): “Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JPROC.2013.2250891 1410 Proceedings of the IEEE | Vol. 101, No. 6, June 2013 0018-9219/$31.00 2013 IEEE Wireless power transport (WPT) is actively researched by groups in Finland [7], United States [8]–[10], Korea [11], Japan [12], Belgium [13], Germany [14], and a”
Low-Power Wireless Power Delivery (2012, background): “For 25–200 W/cm , to the best of our knowledge, the efficiencies reported here are the highest demonstrated for these power levels.”
A High-Efficiency Broadband Rectenna for Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting (2015, background): “Various designs, such as single-band rectennas and arrays [1]–[7], multiband rectennas [8]–[12], and broadband rectenna arrays [13], have already been investigated and different antennas and rectifier designs have also been analyzed and summarized in such as [14] and [15].”
Theoretical Analysis of RF-DC Conversion Efficiency for Class-F Rectifiers (2014, background): “Modern applications of the MPT system include high-power solar-power satellites (SPSs) [1] and low-power RF energy harvesters [2].”
A Dual-Band Rectenna Using Broadband Yagi Antenna Array for Ambient RF Power Harvesting (2013, background): “In [4], rectifiers were connected to broadband antennas to collect RF energy over a broad frequency band.”
Rectenna design and optimization using reciprocity theory and harmonic balance analysis for electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesting (2010, methodology): “The antenna is designed using electromagnetic (EM) simulation, and its -parameters are then included in a nonlinear circuit simulation tool such as a harmonic balance (HB) simulator used to design the rectifier [3].”