Rectenna performance under power-optimized waveform excitation

2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 237-244

  Valenta, Christopher R ^a   Durgin, Gregory D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT PARAMETER; CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE; EQUAL ENERGY; OPTIMAL RANGES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RIPPLE VOLTAGE; SUB-CARRIER SPACINGS; VOLTAGE RIPPLES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84881354005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID.2013.6548160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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