Photovoltaic antennas for autonomous wireless systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 807-811

  Danesh, Mina ^a   Long, John R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Solar energy; Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ENERGY HARVESTING; LOOP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RECTENNAS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

DIRECT CURRENT POWER; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRATED WIRELESS SYSTEMS; POWER MANAGEMENT SCHEME; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 83655163956     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2173975     Document Type: Article

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