Recycling ambient microwave energy with broad-band rectenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1014-1024

  Hagerty, Joseph A ^a,b   Helmbrecht, Florian B ^c   McCalpin, William H ^b   Zane, Regan ^a   Popović, Zoya B ^a  

^a UCB 428   (United States)

^b dBm Engineering Inc   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DC DC conversion; Power combining; Rectenna; Rectifier

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; POLARIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; RECEPTION QUALITY; SENSORS;

AMBIENT MICROWAVE ENERGY; BROADBAND RECTENNA ARRAYS; RECEPTION; RECTIFICATION;

MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1842422834     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.823585     Document Type: Article

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