An antenna co-design dual Band RF energy harvester

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3256-3266

  Li, Bo ^a   Shao, Xi ^a   Shahshahan, Negin ^a   Goldsman, Neil ^a   Salter, Thomas ^b   Metze, George M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS voltage doubler; low power energy solution; low power RF harvester; voltage boosting techniques

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; RECTENNAS;

CO-DESIGN METHODOLOGY; LOW POWER; LOW POWER RF; RF ENERGY HARVESTERS; VOLTAGE BOOSTING; VOLTAGE DOUBLER; VOLTAGE REQUIREMENT; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84890122781     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2013.2264712     Document Type: Article

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