Design and optimization of an antenna with Thermo-Electric Generator (TEG) for autonomous wireless nodes

2014 IEEE RFID Technology and Applications Conference, RFID-TA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 21-25

  Virili, Marco ^a   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^b   Niotaki, Kyriaki ^b   Collado, Ana ^b   Alimenti, Federico ^a   Mezzanotte, Paolo ^a   Roselli, Luca ^a   Carvalho, Nuno Borges ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Design optimization; Energy harvesting; Patch antennas; TEG; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RECTENNAS; SENSOR NODES; SLOT ANTENNAS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA TOPOLOGY; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; QUARTER-WAVE PATCH ANTENNAS; RADIATION PROPERTIES; THERMAL TRANSFER;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84912118195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID-TA.2014.6934194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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