Wireless power transmission: R&D activities within europe

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1031-1045

  Borges Carvalho, Nuno ^a   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^b   Costanzo, Alessandra ^c   Rogier, Hendrik ^d   Collado, Ana ^b   Garcia, Jose Angel ^e   Lucyszyn, Stepan ^f   Mezzanotte, Paolo ^g   Kracek, Jan ^h   Masotti, Diego ^c   Boaventura, Alirio J Soares ^a   De Las Nieves Ruiz Lavin, Maria ^e   Pinuela, Manuel ^f   Yates, David C ^f   Mitcheson, Paul D ^f   Mazanek, Milos ^h   Pankrac, Vitezslav ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^h CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Computer aided design (CAD) techniques; energy harvesting; inductive power transfer (IPT); Internet of Things (IoT); machine to machine (M2M) communication; power management; rectenna; RF identification (RFID); wireless power transmission (WPT)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERNET; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TECHNOLOGY;

INDUCTIVE POWERTRANSFER (IPT); INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS; POWER MANAGEMENTS; RECTENNAS; RF IDENTIFICATIONS; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION;

POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84898403681     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2303420     Document Type: Article

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