E-textile technology review–from materials to application

A Komolafe, B Zaghari, R Torah, AS Weddell… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such
as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a …

Self-sustainable biomedical devices powered by RF energy: A review

H Yahya Alkhalaf, M Yazed Ahmad, H Ramiah - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wearable and implantable medical devices (IMDs) have come a long way in the past few
decades and have contributed to the development of many personalized health monitoring …

Next-generation IoT devices: Sustainable eco-friendly manufacturing, energy harvesting, and wireless connectivity

H Rahmani, D Shetty, M Wagih… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This invited paper presents potential solutions for tackling some of the main underlying
challenges toward developing sustainable Internet-of-things (IoT) devices with a focus on …

RF energy harvesting and wireless power transfer for energy autonomous wireless devices and RFIDs

K Niotaki, NB Carvalho, A Georgiadis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and wireless power transmission (WPT)
technologies—both near-field and far-field—have attracted significant interest for wireless …

Dual-band dual-mode textile antenna/rectenna for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)

M Wagih, GS Hilton, AS Weddell… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a textile antenna for dual-band simultaneous wireless information and
power transfer (SWIPT). The antenna operates as a 2.4 GHz off-body communications …

RF-powered wearable energy harvesting and storage module based on E-textile coplanar waveguide rectenna and supercapacitor

M Wagih, N Hillier, S Yong… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a high-efficiency compact () textile-integrated energy harvesting and
storage module for RF power transfer. A flexible 50-thick coplanar waveguide rectenna …

A scalable, dual-polarized absorber surface for electromagnetic energy harvesting and wireless power transfer

F Erkmen, OM Ramahi - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a dual-polarized electromagnetic (EM) energy-harvesting system that consists of
a periodic absorber surface and a full-wave rectifier. The unit cell of the absorber is …

Dual-polarized wearable antenna/rectenna for full-duplex and MIMO simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)

M Wagih, GS Hilton, AS Weddell… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the mobility of a wearable antenna and the unpredictable body-centric
communications environment, dual-polarization antennas are essential for both …

Meshed high-impedance matching network-free rectenna optimized for additive manufacturing

M Wagih, AS Weddell, S Beeby - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Additive manufacturing using direct-write or screen printing represent low-waste methods for
fabricating antennas on low-cost flexible substrates. To realize rectennas using low …

Thin Flexible RF Energy Harvesting Rectenna Surface With a Large Effective Aperture for Sub μW/cm2 Powering of Wireless Sensor Nodes

M Wagih, S Beeby - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dc power collected by radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) absorbing surfaces is
limited by their physical aperture. Here, a compact, conformable, and ultrathin sub-1 GHz …