Solar/Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transmission

Author

Niotaki, Kyriaki ; Collado, Ana ; Georgiadis, Anthimos ; Sangkil Kim ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

Author_Institution

Technol. Telecommun. Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Castelldefels, Spain

Volume

102

Issue

11

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1712

Lastpage

1722

Abstract

This paper presents a review of existing works and solutions in the field of solar/electromagnetic energy harvesting and wireless power transmission. More specifically, the paper covers: solar/electromagnetic harvesters where solar antenna structures are used to obtain a compact implementation, direct current (dc) combining circuits necessary to combine the outputs of the solar and the electromagnetic harvesters, and efficient solar-to-electromagnetic (EM) converters that can be used to synthesize autonomous wireless power transmission radio-frequency (RF) signal generators. Finally, novel topologies to minimize the sensitivity of rectifier circuits to variations in the received RF power levels are presented.

Keywords

energy harvesting; radiofrequency power transmission; rectifiers; signal generators; EM converters; RF power levels; RF signal generators; dc combining circuits; direct current combining circuits; radio-frequency signal generators; rectifier circuits; sensitivity minimization; solar antenna structures; solar-electromagnetic energy harvesting; solar-electromagnetic harvesters; solar-to-electromagnetic converters; topologies; wireless power transmission; Antennas; Electromagnetics; Energy harvesting; Photovoltaic cells; Power transmission; Radio frequency; Rectifiers; Renewablle energy sources; Solar power; Wireless communication; Energy harvesting; rectenna; rectifier; resistance compression network (RCN); solar energy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2014.2358646

Filename

6918373