Low-power wireless power delivery

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2277-2286

  Falkenstein, Erez ^a   Roberg, Michael ^a   Popović, Zoya ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic balance; rectenna; rectification; source pull; wireless powering

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; COMPLEX IMPEDANCE; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; HARMONIC BALANCE; INCIDENT POWER; INPUT POWER; LOW POWER; MATCHING NETWORKS; NONLINEAR MEASUREMENT; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; RECTENNAS; RECTIFICATION; RECTIFYING DEVICES; SCHOTTKY DIODES; SOURCE-PULL; WIRELESS POWER DELIVERY;

ANTENNAS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84863461407     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2193594     Document Type: Article

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