Design of voltage doubling rectifier circuit in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Zhang, Jianbin ; Jia, Zhongning

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Inf., Jiangsu Teacher Univ. of Techn., Changzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

456

Lastpage

459

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is a key technology of Internet of Things (IOT). WSN node is commonly powered by battery. However, battery capacity is limited, which affects the overall performance of WSN. The technology of environmental energy harvesting is presented for power supply of WSN node in this paper. Specifically, the basic voltage doubling rectifier circuit is analyzed, then the microwave voltage doubling rectifier circuit is derived in UHF band, and its main components and parameters are analyzed in detail. Lastly, the four-stages voltage doubling rectifier circuit of 900NHz is designed and simulated using ADS software. The simulation results indicated that the design scheme of voltage doubling rectifier circuit is correct and feasible.

Keywords

energy harvesting; low-power electronics; rectifiers; wireless sensor networks; ADS software; UHF band; WSN node power supply; battery capacity; energy harvesting; microwave voltage doubling rectifier circuit; wireless sensor networks; Antenna accessories; Educational institutions; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Mobile communication; Radio frequency; Switches; ADS; UHF; WSN; voltage doubling rectifier circuit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6788-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIC.2010.5687582

Filename

5687582