Title :
Maximizing DC power in energy harvesting circuits using multi-sine excitation
Author :
Boaventura, A.S. ; Carvalho, Nuno Borges
Author_Institution :
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. This paper presents an approach to signal excitation specially designed to improve the DC power obtained in a RF to DC converter and consequently its RF-DC efficiency conversion. In this sense, a multi-sine signal is used as the excitation, and it is proved either theoretically, by simulations and by measurements, that a multi-sine signal with 0° phase relationship between the tones present better DC values in energy harvesters, when compared with a single tone excitation with the same input power
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-754-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-645X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5973371
