Antennas and circuits for ambient RF energy harvesting in wireless body area networks

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 532-537

  Barroca, Norberto ^a   Saraiva, Henrique M ^a   Gouveia, Paulo T ^a   Tavares, Jorge ^a   Borges, Luís M ^a   Velez, Fernando J ^a   Loss, Caroline ^b   Salvado, Rita ^b   Pinho, Pedro ^a,c   Gonçalves, Ricardo ^a,d   Borgescarvalho, Nuno ^a,d   Chavéz Santiago, Raúl ^e   Balasingham, Ilangko ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRINTED ANTENNA; RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; RECEIVED POWER; RF ENERGY HARVESTING; TEXTILE MATERIALS; THROUGH POWER; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; ENERGY HARVESTING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84893288776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2013.6666194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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