Ambient RF Energy Harvesting in Urban and Semi-Urban Environments

By M. Piñuela, P. Mitcheson, S. Lucyszyn. IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2013

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs) (2018, background): “Nevertheless, RF energy harvesters are promising when implemented in urban and suburban areas due to the large amount of ambient energy sources and the relatively small distance between the RF sources and the receiving antenna (Pinuela et al. 2013).”
• Sensitive and Efficient RF Harvesting Supply for Batteryless Backscatter Sensor Networks (2016, methodology): “1It is noted that the presented efficiency for [20] on Table I refers to the maximum end-to-end efficiency for only one rectenna (not rectenna array).”
• A Multi-Band Stacked RF Energy Harvester With RF-to-DC Efficiency Up to 84% (2015, background): “The filter functionality is to match the antenna impedance and the conjugate impedance of the rectifier input.”
• Wireless Information and Power Transfer With Full Duplex Relaying (2014, background): “cy) limitation is to harvest energy from man-made radio frequen cy (RF) electromagnetic radiation (also known as wireless pow er transfer) [1, 2].”
• Wireless Networks With RF Energy Harvesting: A Contemporary Survey (2014, methodology): “Existing literature has also presented many implementations of batt eryfree devices powered by ambient energy from WiFi [ 67], [68], GSM [69], [70], [71], [72] and DTV bands [ 73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78] as well as ambient mobile electronic devices [79].”
• Enhanced Dual-Band Ambient RF Energy Harvesting With Ultra-Wide Power Range (2015, background): “1(b), the total RF power in ambient is limited and distributed on several public telecommunication bands [5].”
• A Dual-Port Triple-Band L-Probe Microstrip Patch Rectenna for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting (2017, background): “The power density of ambient RF signals in various bands was investigated in [1], [2], providing a reference for multiband or broadband antenna design for ambient RF energy harvesting.”
• Waveform Design for Wireless Power Transfer (2016, background): “diode) followed by a low pass filter (LPF) with load [3], [5], [6].”