Efficient Dual Band RF Energy Harvesting Front End for Ultra Low Power Sensitive Passive Wearable Devices

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramod Kaddi ◽  
Nagaveni Vamsi ◽  
Anil Appala ◽  
Asudeb Dutta ◽  
Shiv Govind Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Rf Energy Harvesting ◽  
Ultra Low Power ◽  
Front End ◽  
Rf Energy

scholarly journals Ultra low power mixer with out-of-band RF energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jie Jin ◽  
Xianming Wu ◽  
Zhijun Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Wireless Sensors ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Ic Design ◽  
Rf Energy Harvesting ◽  
Ultra Low Power ◽  
Rf Energy ◽  
Cmos Rf

An ultra low power mixer with out-of-band radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting suitable for the wireless sensors network (WSN) application is proposed in this paper. The presented mixer is able to harvest the out-of-band RF energy and keep it working in ultra low power condition and extend the battery life of the WSN. The mixer is designed and simulated with Global Foundries ’ 0.18 μ m CMOS RF process, and it operates at 2.4GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. The Cadence IC Design Tools post-layout simulation results demonstrate that the proposed mixer consumes 248 μ W from a 1V supply voltage. Furthermore, the power consumption can be reduced to 120.8 μ W by the out-of-band RF energy harvesting rectifier.

scholarly journals High-Efficiency Triple-Band RF-to-DC Rectifier Primary Design for RF Energy-Harvesting Systems

Telecom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Maria S. Papadopoulou ◽  
Achilles D. Boursianis ◽  
Christos K. Volos ◽  
Ioannis N. Stouboulos ◽  
Spyridon Nikolaidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Low Power ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Feasible Solution ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Rf Energy Harvesting ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
Initial Design ◽  
Rf Energy ◽  
Triple Band

Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting has been emerged as a potentially reliable method to replace the costly and difficult to maintain source of low-power wireless sensor networks. A plethora of dual-band rectifier designs has been proposed in the literature operating in various frequency bands. In this paper, a triple-band RF-to-DC rectifier that operates in the frequency bands of LoRaWAN, GSM-900, and WiFi 2.4 GHz is presented. The system is composed of an impedance-matching circuit, an RF-to-DC rectifier, that converts the ambient RF energy into DC voltage able to feed low-power devices, and an output load. The proposed system resonates at three different frequencies of 866 MHz, 948 MHz and 2423 MHz, which fall within the aforementioned frequency bands of interest. The feasible solution of the proposed system was based on a dual-band rectifier operating in the frequency bands of LoRaWAN and GSM-900. A series of shunt stubs was utilized in the initial design to form the feasible solution of the proposed system. The proposed triple-band rectifier was optimized using a powerful optimization algorithm, i.e., the genetic algorithm. The overall system exhibited improved characteristics compared to the initial design in terms of its resonance. Numerical results demonstrated that the overall system exhibited an efficiency of 81% with 3.23 V of the output voltage, for an input power of 0 dBm and a load of 13 kOhm.

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