Title :
Wireless energy harvesting for medical applications
Author :
B. DeLong;C. C. Chen;J. L. Volakis
Author_Institution :
ElectroScience Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43212, USA
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A Radio Frequency (RF) power harvesting system is proposed to wirelessly power medical devices (e.g., wearable or implantable sensors, etc). The proposed system allows medical devices to operate even when there is little RF energy available. The power receiver consists of a printed antenna, well-tuned rectifier, power management chip, and a charge storage device. For a 100mW transmitter operating at 2.4GHz, a 4F super-capacitor can be wirelessly recharged to 3V. Future design considerations are discussed, viz. flexibility of the harvester circuit and wide band harvesting.
Keywords :
"Energy harvesting","Radio frequency","Receiving antennas","Rectifiers","IEEE 802.11 Standard","Optical transmitters","Biomedical optical imaging"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2015.7304995
