Ambient RF energy-harvesting technologies for self-sustainable standalone wireless sensor platforms

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1649-1666

  Kim, Sangkil ^a   Vyas, Rushi ^a,b   Bito, Jo ^a   Niotaki, Kyriaki ^c   Collado, Ana ^c   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^c   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Array Multi Sensor Processing Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient energy harvesting; autonomous sensors; charge pump; digital TV; dual band rectenna; embedded microcontroller; energy harvesting; power scavenging; radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting; RF dc conversion; ultrahigh frequency (UHF); voltage multiplier; wireless power

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING ANTENNAS; DIGITAL RADIO; DIGITAL TELEVISION; MICROCONTROLLERS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

AUTONOMOUS SENSORS; CHARGE PUMP; DIGITAL TV; DUAL BAND; EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLER; RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; RF-DC CONVERSION; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS; WIRELESS POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84908233516     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2357031     Document Type: Article

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