Design of a high-efficiency 2.45-GHz rectenna for low-input-power energy harvesting

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 929-932

  Sun, Hucheng ^a   Guo, Yong Xin ^a   He, Miao ^b   Zhong, Zheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna; energy harvesting; rectenna; rectifier

Indexed keywords

HIGH GAIN; INPUT POWER; LOAD RESISTANCES; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; POWER DENSITIES; RECTENNAS; RECTIFIER; RF-POWER; SECOND AND THIRD HARMONICS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84865682435     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2212232     Document Type: Article

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