Solar/electromagnetic energy harvesting and wireless power transmission

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1712-1722

  Niotaki, Kyriaki ^a   Collado, Ana ^a   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^a   Kim, Sangkil ^b   Tentzeris, Manos M ^b  

^a Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia CTTC   (Spain)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; rectenna; rectifier; resistance compression network (RCN); solar energy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC HARVESTERS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RECTENNA; RECTIFIER; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84908229724     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2358646     Document Type: Article

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