Hybrid Power Harvesting for Increased Power Conversion Efficiency

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 687-689

  Lorenz, Carlos H P ^a   Hemour, Simon ^a   Liu, Weiqun ^b   Badel, Adrien ^b   Formosa, Fabien ^b   Wu, Ke ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Hybrid energy harvesting; mechanical vibration; microwave power transmission; rectenna; rectifier; Schottky diodes

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ENERGY SOURCE; HYBRID POWER; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER HARVESTING; SINGLE EXCITATION; UNCORRELATED SIGNALS; VIBRATION EXCITATION;

HARVESTING;

EID: 84959505135     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2015.2463229     Document Type: Article

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