Fully integrated passive UHF RFID transponder IC with 16.7-μW minimum RF input power

By U. Karthaus, M. Fischer. IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, 2003

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Efficient Far-Field Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting for Passively Powered Sensor Networks (2008, background): “Rectification circuits for such systems must be optimized to improve on the minimum power-threshold it takes forthesystemtooperate.Toovercomethispower-threshold,the system requires significantly more efficient circuit and system level design [ 15 ].”
Environmental Effects on RFID Tag Antennas (2005, background): “Typical IC requirements are a few tens of microwatts at somewhat more than 1 volt [ 2 ], implying an unobstructed range of several meters using the US regulatory limitation of 36 dBm maximum effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP).”
Sensitivity and Impedance Measurements of UHF RFID Chips (2009, neutral): “3.”
Remotely powered addressable UHF RFID integrated system (2005, background): “compared with the available technologies today [4], [5] (see Table V).”
A 96 Mbit/sec, 15.5 pJ/bit 16-QAM modulator for UHF backscatter communication (2012, neutral): “25 μW [1].”
Ambient RF Energy-Harvesting Technologies for Self-Sustainable Standalone Wireless Sensor Platforms (2014, methodology): “[41] U.”
Harvesting Wireless Power: Survey of Energy-Harvester Conversion Efficiency in Far-Field, Wireless Power Transfer Systems (2014, background): “June 2014 117 designs have leveraged CMOS-based Schottky diodes [33], [36].”
Design criteria for the RF section of UHF and microwave passive RFID transponders (2005, background): “It is important to verify that the power that comes to the input of the voltage multiplier is sufficient to ensure its correct operation.”
— Invited Paper — Backscatter Communication and RFID: Coding, Energy, and MIMO Analysis (2014, background): “The IC modulates information onto the backscattered CW by controlling the front-end impedance loading [8], [32], as described later.”
Radio Link Budgets for UHF RFID on Multipath Environments (2009, methodology): “For transmitting information from the tag to the reader, ASK modulation is currently more widely used due to its simplicity and can achieve good efficiency in a low duty cycle system [ 22 ].”
High-Efficiency Differential-Drive CMOS Rectifier for UHF RFIDs (2009, methodology): “For this purpose, a Schottky diode is utilized in rectifiers [ 4 ], [5].”
Low-Power CMOS Rectifier Design for RFID Applications (2007, neutral): “In these systems, RF power is transmitted by a “primary” or “reader” to one or many “secondaries” or “tags”.”
Analysis and Design Strategy of UHF Micro-Power CMOS Rectifiers for Micro-Sensor and RFID Applications (2007, background): “To obtain a high output voltage and a high efficiency, Schottky diodes with low potential barrier are used [3], [4].”
Multiresonator-Based Chipless RFID System for Low-Cost Item Tracking (2009, background): “The proposed chipless RFID system is fully passive and the transponders do not need any power supply in order to operate [9].”
A 90-nm CMOS Threshold-Compensated RF Energy Harvester (2011, background): “For instance, Schottky diodes and zero- transistors are exploited as rectifying components in [ 2 ] and [6], respectively.”
Increased Range Bistatic Scatter Radio (2014, background): “Work in [11]–[13] focuses on the microwave parameters of the RF tag that impact tag-to-reader communication performance, such as the antenna load selection and the antenna-RFID chip matching.”