A Planar Dipole Array Surface for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1553-1560

  Ashoor, Ahmed Z ^a   Almoneef, Thamer S ^b   Ramahi, Omar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b PRINCE SATTAM BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Dipole array; electromagnetic absorber; energy harvesting; rectennas; rectification; wireless power transfer (WPT)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; DIODES; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; RECTENNAS; RESISTORS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

DIPOLE ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORBERS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RECTIFICATION; SCHOTTKY DIODES; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER (WPT);

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 85030780375     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2017.2750163     Document Type: Article

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