Wireless networks with RF energy harvesting: A contemporary survey

X Lu, P Wang, D Niyato, DI Kim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio frequency (RF) energy transfer and harvesting techniques have recently become
alternative methods to power the next-generation wireless networks. As this emerging …

RF power harvesting: a review on designing methodologies and applications

LG Tran, HK Cha, WT Park - Micro and Nano Systems Letters, 2017 - Springer
Wireless power transmission was conceptualized nearly a century ago. Certain
achievements made to date have made power harvesting a reality, capable of providing …

Two-dimensional MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for Wi-Fi-band wireless energy harvesting

X Zhang, J Grajal, JL Vazquez-Roy, U Radhakrishna… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The mechanical and electronic properties of two-dimensional materials make them
promising for use in flexible electronics 1, 2, 3. Their atomic thickness and large-scale …

Harvesting wireless power: Survey of energy-harvester conversion efficiency in far-field, wireless power transfer systems

CR Valenta, GD Durgin - IEEE microwave magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea of wireless power transfer (WPT) has been around since the inception of electricity.
In the late 19th century, Nikola Tesla described the freedom to transfer energy between two …

Wi-Fi backscatter: Internet connectivity for RF-powered devices

B Kellogg, A Parks, S Gollakota, JR Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
RF-powered computers are small devices that compute and communicate using only the
power that they harvest from RF signals. While existing technologies have harvested power …

Microwave and millimeter wave power beaming

CT Rodenbeck, PI Jaffe, BH Strassner II… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power beaming is the efficient point-to-point transfer of electrical energy across free space
by a directive electromagnetic beam. This paper clarifies the basic principles of power …

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 …

Powering the next billion devices with Wi-Fi

V Talla, B Kellogg, B Ransford, S Naderiparizi… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present the first power over Wi-Fi system that delivers power to low-power sensors and
devices and works with existing Wi-Fi chipsets. Specifically, we show that a ubiquitous part …

Review of the application of energy harvesting in buildings

JW Matiko, NJ Grabham, SP Beeby… - Measurement Science …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art of the application of energy harvesting in commercial
and residential buildings. Electromagnetic (optical and radio frequency), kinetic, thermal and …

A comprehensive survey on RF energy harvesting: Applications and performance determinants

HHR Sherazi, D Zorbas, B O'Flynn - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
There has been an explosion in research focused on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in
recent years, with a broad range of use cases in different domains ranging from industrial …