An RF energy harvester with 44.1% PCE at input available power of -12 dBm

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1528-1537

  Hsieh, Ping Hsuan ^a   Chou, Chih Hsien ^a   Chiang, Tao ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DC DC boost converter; energy harvesting; full bridge differential rectifier; passively powered device; power conversion efficiency; radio frequency energy harvesting; remotely powered device; wireless sensor network; wireless sensor node

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO WAVES; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DC-DC BOOST CONVERTERS; FULL BRIDGE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWERED DEVICES; RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84930965615     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: 15580806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2418834     Document Type: Article

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