Harvesting Wireless Power: Survey of Energy-Harvester Conversion Efficiency in Far-Field, Wireless Power Transfer Systems
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...In general, for low power, the RF energy conversion efficiency improves as the input power rises, but there are diminishing returns and limitations on the maximum possible harvested energy, as was evidently proved by field measurements [6]–[8]....
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...In practice, EH circuits [6]–[8] usually result in a non-linear end-to-end wireless power transfer....
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...However, in practice, EH circuits [6]–[8] result in a non-linear end-to-end wireless power transfer....
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...Moreover the practical implementation of rectenna is hard and subject to several losses due to threshold and reverse-breakdown voltages, devices parasitics, impedance matching, and harmonic generation [5]....
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...This is so because RF-based energy harvesting circuits consist of various components such as resistors, capacitors, and diodes that introduce various nonlinearities [5], [6], [50], [51]....
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...Indeed, e3 of state-of-theart rectifiers drops from 80% at P r rf =10 mW to 40% at 100 μW, 20% at 10 μW and 2% at 1 μW [2], [5]....
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...For typical input powers between 1 μW and 1 mW, low barrier Schottky diodes remain the most competitive and popular technology [5], [6]....
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...Note that a combination of these approaches is sometimes used; a rectenna harvests energy to create a low voltage that powers a highly efficient dc-dc converter usually based on the traditional Dickson charge pump [16] to increase the voltage to levels capable of powering the electronics....
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...June 2014 117 designs have leveraged CMOS-based Schottky diodes [33], [36]....
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...Though still in the experimental stage, researchers working in SPS have made advancements in energy conversion at great distances and high powers (greater than 1 W) to enable electricity to be shared via radio waves, namely collecting solar energy in orbital stations around earth and beaming it to ground stations via microwave power transfer [5], [6], [7]....
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...Most of these techniques involve some method of providing additional voltage bias that effectively reduces the threshold voltage [40], [31], [32]....
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