A broadband efficient rectenna array for wireless energy harvesting

2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Song, Chaoyun ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Zhou, Jiafeng ^a   Yuan, Sheng ^a   Xu, Qian ^a   Carter, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Global Wireless Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; field measurement; Rectenna array

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY BANDS; RECTENNAS;

AMBIENT SIGNALS; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; OUTPUT POWER; POWER DENSITIES; RECTENNA ARRAY; SIGNAL LEVEL; WIRELESS ENERGY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84949639576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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