Design of a low power 2.45 GHz RF energy harvesting circuit for rectenna

Author

Bin Alam, Saad ; Ullah, Mohammad Sakib ; Moury, Sanjida

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., North South Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2013

fDate

17-18 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, design procedure and characteristics of an RF energy harvesting circuit based on single-stage voltage multiplier rectifier have been discussed and analyzed. This circuit is capable to recycle RF energy at 2.45 GHz, and by connecting to a 2.45 GHz antenna, it is possible to form a complete rectenna device. The values of output dc voltage and power according to the received RF power have been measured and the best value of load resistance to harvest maximum output dc power has been selected by simulation.

Keywords

UHF antennas; energy harvesting; multiplying circuits; power measurement; rectennas; rectifiers; voltage measurement; design procedure; frequency 2.45 GHz; load resistance; low power RF energy harvesting circuit; output DC power measurement; output DC voltage measurement; received RF power; rectenna device; single-stage voltage multiplier rectifier; wireless microwave energy harvesting; Energy harvesting; Microwave circuits; Radio frequency; Rectennas; Rectifiers; Resistance; Wireless sensor networks; RF energy; load; matching network; rectifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0397-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEV.2013.6572628

Filename

6572628