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 …

Far-field wireless power harvesting: Nonlinear modeling, rectenna design, and emerging applications

X Gu, S Hemour, K Wu - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous advances in ultralow-power electronics are a fundamental driving force of
developing far-field wireless power harvesting techniques, which generally harnesses …

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 …

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 …

RF energy harvesting for embedded systems: A survey of tradeoffs and methodology

T Soyata, L Copeland… - IEEE Circuits and Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of passive Radio Frequency (RF) energy reception and
power harvesting circuits for isolated communications and computing systems lacking …

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 …

Low-power far-field wireless powering for wireless sensors

Z Popović, EA Falkenstein, D Costinett… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses far-field wireless powering for low-power wireless sensors, with
applications to sensing in environments where it is difficult or impossible to change batteries …

Towards low-power high-efficiency RF and microwave energy harvesting

S Hemour, Y Zhao, CHP Lorenz… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the very beginning of RF and microwave integrated techniques and energy
harvesting, Schottky diodes are most often used in mixing and rectifying circuits. However, in …

Design and safety considerations of an implantable rectenna for far-field wireless power transfer

C Liu, YX Guo, H Sun, S Xiao - IEEE Transactions on antennas …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An implantable rectenna, which consists of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) and a rectifier
circuit, is proposed for far-field wireless power transfer. The PIFA has a folded ground plane …

Low-power wireless power delivery

E Falkenstein, M Roberg… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses design and implementation of integrated rectifier-antennas
(rectennas) for wireless powering at low incident power densities, from 25 to 200 μW/cm^2 …