Efficiency in RF energy harvesting systems: A comprehensive review

M Cansiz, D Altinel, GK Kurt - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the most important research areas searches for new sources of energy and for the
highest efficiency from existing energy sources. Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting is a …

Radiofrequency energy harvesting systems for internet of things applications: A comprehensive overview of design issues

A Mouapi - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radiofrequency energy harvesting (RF-EH) solutions have evolved significantly in recent
years due to the ubiquity of electromagnetic waves in any environment. This review presents …

Exploring the boundaries of ambient RF energy harvesting with LoRaWAN

J Finnegan, K Niotaki, S Brown - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Environmental monitoring is an important application for wireless sensing devices. Battery
power requires in-the-field replacement, and the chemicals involved are environmentally …

A 500-nW-to-1-mW input power inductive boost converter with MPPT for RF energy harvesting system

G Saini, L Somappa, MS Baghini - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses a novel RF energy-harvesting system for available power as low as
500 nW. The system includes a main RF rectenna (antenna followed by rectifier) for energy …

A generic power management circuit for energy harvesters with shared components between the MPPT and regulator

G Saini, MS Baghini - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel power management circuit (PMC) for harvesting the energy
from the ambient. The proposed PMC comprises an energy harvester, a startup, a dc–dc …

An energy harvesting system for time-varying energy transducers with FOCV based dynamic and adaptive MPPT for 30 nW to 4 mW of input power range

G Saini, MS Baghini - Microelectronics Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
This article, for the first time, presents an energy harvesting system (EHS) for harvesting the
energy from the continuous time-varying energy harvesters using the fractional open-circuit …

Analysis and design of an integrated RF energy harvester for ultra low‐power environments

M Caselli, M Tonelli, A Boni - International Journal of Circuit …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Radio‐frequency (RF) energy harvesting must cope with the limited availability and high
variability of the energy source. In this paper, the available RF power in three typical …

Review on power conversion efficiency improvement strategies in RF energy harvesting

KN Patil, AD Jadhav - 2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In RF energy harvesting, the energy received from electromagnetic waves is converted into
useful dc power. The paper aims to review the present strategies for analyzing power …

Analysis of the optimum gain of a high-pass L-matching network for rectennas

M Gasulla, J Jordana, FJ Robert, J Berenguer - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Rectennas, which mainly consist of an antenna, matching network, and rectifier, are used to
harvest radiofrequency energy in order to power tiny sensor nodes, eg, the nodes of the …

A compact Thévenin Model for a Rectenna and Its Application to an RF Harvester with MPPT

M Gasulla, E Ripoll-Vercellone, F Reverter - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a compact Thévenin model for a rectenna. This model is then applied
to design a high-efficiency radio frequency harvester with a maximum power point tracker …