Rectifier design challenges for RF wireless power transfer and energy harvesting systems

Ana Collado; Spyridon Nektarios Daskalakis; Kyriaki Niotaki; Ricard Martinez; Ferran Bolos; Apostolos Georgiadis

doi:10.13164/re.2017.0411

Rectifier design challenges for RF wireless power transfer and energy harvesting systems

Ana Collado
, Spyridon Nektarios Daskalakis
, Kyriaki Niotaki
, Ricard Martinez
, Ferran Bolos
, Apostolos Georgiadis

Heriot Watt University
Bentel Ltd.
Universidad Politecnica de Catalunia

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Abstract

The design of wireless power transfer (WPT) and energy harvesting (EH) solutions poses different challenges towards achieving maximum RF-DC conversion efficiency in these systems. This paper covers several selected challenges when developing WPT and electromagnetic EH solutions, such as the design of multiband and broadband rectifiers, the minimization of the effect that load and input power variations may have on the system performance and finally the most optimum power combining mechanisms that can be used when dealing with multielement rectifiers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411-417
Number of pages	7
Journal	Radioengineering
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13164/re.2017.0411
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Broadband rectifier
Energy harvesting
Multiband rectifier
Rectenna
Rectifier
Schottky diode
Wideband rectifier
Wireless power transfer

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