RF energy harvesting design using high Q resonators

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning and RFID, Proceedings, IMWS 2009 - Croatia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ungan, Tolgay ^a   Le Polozec, Xavier ^b   Walker, William ^a   Reindl, Leonhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Ericsson France   (France)

Author keywords

Passive RFID; RF energy harvesting; RF to DC conversion; Ultra low power rectifiers; Wireless energy transmission

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DESIGN SYSTEM SOFTWARES; ANALYTIC COMPUTATIONS; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; HIGH-Q RESONATORS; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SIMULATIONS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PASSIVE RFID; QUARTZ RESONATORS; RADIATION SOURCE; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; SCHOTTKY; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSMISSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DESIGN; DISTILLATION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HARVESTING; MICROWAVES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUARTZ; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; RESONATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 73649110622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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