A high-efficiency broadband rectenna for ambient wireless energy harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3486-3495

  Song, Chaoyun ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Zhou, Jiafeng ^a   Zhang, Jingwei ^a   Yuan, Sheng ^a   Carter, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Global Wireless Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband rectifier; cross dipole antenna; energy harvesting; harmonic rejection; rectenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BALLOONS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BROADBAND RECTIFIER; HARMONIC REJECTION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING CIRCUITS; POWER SENSITIVITY; RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY; RECTENNA; SECOND AND THIRD HARMONICS;

RECTENNAS;

EID: 84938881585     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2431719     Document Type: Article

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