Stacked Yagi-Uda Array for 2.45-GHz Wireless Energy Harvesting

Author

Soboll, Patrick ; Wienstroer, Volker ; Kronberger, Rainer

Author_Institution

Cologne Univ. of Appl. Sci., Cologne, Germany

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb. 2015

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

73

Abstract

Wireless energy harvesting is currently a popular topic in radiofrequency (RF) engineering. Electromagnetic (EM) energy coming from different kinds of sources has to be collected by the harvester and efficiently converted into dc power. Practical applications include wireless charging systems and dc powering of RF identification (RFID) chips. Space applications were also investigated. Therefore, the third Wireless Energy Harvesting Student Design Competition was organized during the 2014 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society International Microwave Symposium (IMS2014) in Tampa, Florida.

Keywords

Yagi antenna arrays; energy harvesting; inductive power transmission; radiofrequency identification; RFID chips; dc powering; electromagnetic energy; frequency 2.45 GHz; radiofrequency engineering; stacked Yagi-Uda array; wireless charging systems; wireless energy harvesting; Dipole antennas; Energy harvesting; Integrated circuit modeling; Patch antennas; Radio frequency; Rectifiers; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1527-3342

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MMM.2014.2367858

Filename

7010410