Inkjet-printed RF energy harvesting and wireless power trasmission devices on paper substrate

Author

Sangkil Kim ; Vyas, Raul ; Georgiadis, Anthimos ; Collado, Ana ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Engineeing, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

6-10 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

983

Lastpage

986

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the state-of-the-art inkjet-printed energy harvesting and wireless power transfer technology on paper substrate. RF energy harvesting devices utilizing a charge pump circuit or an active antenna based wireless power transmission device are presented. Inkjet printing technology on paper substrate and fabrication techniques, along with a variety of applications, are presented with particular focus on low-cost and eco-friendly wireless systems for wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

charge pump circuits; energy harvesting; ink jet printers; paper; substrates; wireless sensor networks; RF energy harvesting devices; active antenna based wireless power transmission device; charge pump circuit; inkjet-printed energy harvesting; paper substrate; wireless power transfer technology; wireless sensor networks; Conductivity; Energy harvesting; Radio frequency; Silver; Substrates; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; charge pump; energy harvesting; inkjet printing; paper substrate; wireless power transfer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2013 European

Conference_Location

Nuremberg

Type

conf

Filename

6686824