Scalable RF energy harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1046-1056

  Popovic, Zoya ^a   Korhummel, Sean ^a   Dunbar, Steven ^a   Scheeler, Robert ^a   Dolgov, Arseny ^a   Zane, Regan ^a,b   Falkenstein, Erez ^a   Hagerty, Joseph ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Power management; rectifier; RF; wireless powering; wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

POWER MANAGEMENTS; RECTIFIER; RF; WIRELESS POWERING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84898402533     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2300840     Document Type: Article

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