Co-integration of an RF energy harvester into a 2.4 GHz transceiver

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1565-1574

  Masuch, Jens ^a   Delgado Restituto, Manuel ^a   Milosevic, Dusan ^b   Baltus, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Rectifier; RF energy harvesting; RF switch; RF to DC converter; wake up receiver; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

RECTIFIER; RF ENERGY HARVESTING; RF SWITCH; RF-TO-DC CONVERTER; WAKE-UP RECEIVER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; TRANSCEIVERS; WAKES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84879949671     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2253394     Document Type: Article

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