Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Using Full-Wave Rectification

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1843-1851

  Erkmen, Faruk ^a   Almoneef, Thamer S ^a   Ramahi, Omar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Array; channeling; dipole antenna; energy harvesting; full wave rectification; rectenna; rectifier; Schottky diode

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

BALANCED CONFIGURATIONS; FULL WAVE RECTIFICATIONS; FULL-WAVE RECTIFIERS; HALF-WAVE RECTIFIERS; MICROWAVE REGIME; POWER ABSORPTION; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES;

RECTENNAS;

EID: 85015634135     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2673821     Document Type: Article

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