• DocumentCode
    3689239
  • Title

    A differentially-driven rectifier for enhanced RF power harvesting

  • Author

    Hucheng Sun;Guangzu Xu

  • Author_Institution
    Research Center of Applied Electromagnetics Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a differentially-driven rectifier for enhanced RF power harvesting. Based on a traditional one-fed rectifier, a differentially-driven rectifier is designed, whose RF-to-DC power conversion efficiency (PCE) is roughly the same as that of the traditional one. The performance of the differentially-driven rectifier is verified by both simulation and measurement results. The measured RF-to-DC PCE of the proposed differentially-driven rectifier achieves its maximum value of 73.9% when the input power level is 9.4 dBm.
  • Keywords
    "Rectifiers","Rectennas","Radio frequency","Energy harvesting","Power measurement","Wireless communication"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP), 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324976
  • Filename
    7324976