A Novel Ultra-Lightweight Multiband Rectenna on Paper for RF Energy Harvesting in the Next Generation LTE Bands

Palazzi, Valentina; Hester, Jimmy; Bito, Jo; Alimenti, F.; Kalialakis, Christos; Collado, Ana; Mezzanotte, P.; Georgiadis, Apostolos; Roselli, L.; Tentzeris, Manos M.

doi:10.1109/tmtt.2017.2721399

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“…Prior to it, complete illustration about the microwave antennas in RF energy harvesting are presented with complete design perspective. A comparative study along with performatory analysis of microwave antennas are presented in Table ; keeping intact with rectenna characteristics: operating frequency, realized gain, polarization diversity, input power levels, and RF‐to‐DC power conversion efficiency, which was not in the scope of review papers for RF energy harvesting available in the open literature. Technically, to pursue clear understanding about tradeoffs of modern RF systems; five different cases of planar antennas (monopole antennas) at different bands with reflector surfaces and integrated with rectifier circuits are designed, simulated and analyzed by using FDTD domain solver (CST microwave studio) and circuit solver (advanced design system).…”

Section: Microwave Antennas In Rf Energy Harvesting Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microwave antennas—An intrinsic part of RF energy harvesting systems: A contingent study about its design methodologies and state‐of‐art technologies in current scenario

Behera

Meher

Mishra

2020

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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With the significant rise of low power embedded devices in various applications of both consumer and commercial usage, the surge for continuous power requirements has initiated promising research toward alternative sources of energy. It includes the domain of wireless power transmission, internet‐of‐things, wireless sensor nodes, machine‐to‐machine, and radio frequency identification. Thus, the overall scope of this review article is to witness microwave antennas and its implementation in RF energy harvesting system through ambient RF signals. For this reason, unified understanding of classical electromagnetism is needed; beginning with the fundamentals of RF transmission and the exploration of concepts such as Fraunhofer's Distance and Friis Transmission Equation. It is followed up by the analogy of dependency of parameters like circuit build‐up, conversion efficiencies and amount of power harvested, which is quite crucial from the rectifier point‐of‐view. For better improvisement in RF energy harvesting systems, five different cases of monopole antennas are explored with reflector surfaces such as PEC (perfect electrical conductor) and AMC (artificial magnetic conductor) integrated with the rectifier circuit. Implementation with wide diversity has proposed a generalized solution for achieving tradeoffs: polarization and pattern diversity with consistent system efficiency; leads to clean and sustainable energy for low power‐embedded devices.

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Section: Microwave Antennas In Rf Energy Harvesting Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microwave antennas—An intrinsic part of RF energy harvesting systems: A contingent study about its design methodologies and state‐of‐art technologies in current scenario

Behera

Meher

Mishra

2020

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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“…The measured average harvested DC-power of the system was ≈15-17 µW at 4.1 V, whereby the system consisted of a relatively large log-periodic antenna, a discrete RF charge-pump, and the PIC24F micro-controller. Currently, similar experiments are carried out for energy harvesting from LTE mobile communication links [25].…”

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From microwatt to gigabit: challenges of modern radio design

Pretl¹,

Faseth²,

Schumacher³

et al. 2018

Elektrotech. Inftech.

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On the brink of introducing the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks, the art of radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuit design has never seen such a wide spread of diverging requirements:On the one hand, ubiquitous sensor networks are mandating power budgets in the order of micro-watt. They should be constructed as energy-autonomous, wireless, low-cost sensor nodes. This demand is caused by massive deployment scenarios of billions of devices, which makes wires and batteries unpractical. As a result, the desire for the radio nodes to harvest their operational energy from the environment emerges.On the other hand, the recent and ongoing realization of gigabit-per-second capable cellular modems is driving hardware and power requirements to extremes. To overcome hardware limitations, introduced by analog impairments, digital correction and alignment algorithms are employed for compensation. These factors call for usage of expensive advanced CMOS technology nodes and increased utilization of digital signal processing techniques.In this paper, we recap ongoing trends and developments for ultra-low power and high-end transceiver (TRX) designs using CMOS technology nodes ranging from low-cost to highest performance.Keywords: RF; ultra-low-power; wireless architectures; transceiver; mixed-signal circuits; 5G Von Mikrowatt zu Gigabit: Herausforderungen beim Design moderner Funkübertragungssysteme. Neben der Einführung der zellularen Mobilfunknetze der fünften Generation (5G) muss sich auch die integrierte HochfrequenzSchaltungstechnik einer noch nie dagewesenen Breite an unterschiedlichen Anforderungen stellen: Auf der einen Seite gibt es überall kabellose Sensornetzwerke, denen nur eine geringe Menge an Versorgungsleistung im MikrowattBereich zur Verfügung steht. Daher müssen die Chips in diesem Bereich energieautark und möglichst kostengünstig entwickelt werden. Aufgrund der zu erwartenden hohen Stückzahlen (Milliarden von unterschiedlichsten Sensoren für verschiedene Anwendungen) sind eine drahtgebundene Energieversorgung oder der Einsatz von Batterien in vielen Fällen praktisch unmöglich. Somit wird es für die Sensoren immer wichtiger, ihre Energieversorgung aus der Umgebung zu gewinnen (Stichwort Energy Harvesting).

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“…It is composed of two main parts: an antenna and a RF‐to‐DC conversion circuit. Harvesting RF energy from single frequency band has been reported by many works . It gives a limited output power when the available power density is small.…”

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A wideband rectifier array on dual‐polarized differential‐feed fractal slotted ground antenna for RF energy harvesting

Mahfoudi

Tellache

Takhedmit

2019

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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This article reports a novel wideband rectenna for RF energy harvesting applications. A wideband fractal slotted ground antenna (SGA) is adopted. The operating frequency bands of the antenna are GSM, UMTS, Wi‐Fi, and LTE2600/4G bands. The antenna is fed by a dual‐polarized and differential‐feed (DP‐DF) microstrip lines disposed with an angle of 90° each relative to the other. The feed lines are etched on the bottom side of the substrate and connected to an array of four wideband RF‐to‐DC rectifiers. A nonuniform transmission lines filter ensures wideband behavior for each rectifier. The rectenna performances are simulated and measured. The experiments show an output DC voltage of 1 V at a power density of 26.6 μW/cm2 over the frequency band of operation with a peak efficiency of 50%. The proposed rectenna is suitable for energy harvesting applications in urban environments.

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A Novel Ultra-Lightweight Multiband Rectenna on Paper for RF Energy Harvesting in the Next Generation LTE Bands

Cited by 202 publications

References 33 publications

Microwave antennas—An intrinsic part of RF energy harvesting systems: A contingent study about its design methodologies and state‐of‐art technologies in current scenario

Microwave antennas—An intrinsic part of RF energy harvesting systems: A contingent study about its design methodologies and state‐of‐art technologies in current scenario

From microwatt to gigabit: challenges of modern radio design

A wideband rectifier array on dual‐polarized differential‐feed fractal slotted ground antenna for RF energy harvesting

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