Design and implementation of a RF energy harvesting module with DC power control

Author(s):  
Hakan P. Partal ◽  
Sibel Zorlu Partal ◽  
Mehmet A. Belen
Author(s):  
Manee Sangaran Diagarajan ◽  
Agileswari Ramasamy ◽  
Navaamsini Boopalan ◽  
Norashidah Bt. Md Din

<span>Radio Frequency (RF) harvesting seems to be catching up as an alternate energy source whereby RF energy is scavenged from ambient sources and converted into renewable energy in terms of DC power. This converted DC power is then utilized to power up devices that require a low start up power in which eliminates the need for battery replacement. In this paper, a novel RF energy harvesting prototype is presented which consists of two microstrip patch antennas operating on GSM (900MHz) and WIFI (2.4GHz) &amp; WiMAX (2.3GHz) frequency bands with a bandwidth of 220MHz and 10.11MHz respectively to harvest RF signals from ambience. Two matching networks are presented as well to ensure efficient power transfer to load. Rectifiers are designed to transform the RF signals to DC power. The converted DC signals are then combined and fed to a power management circuit which charges a 4.2V NiMh battery and drives a load at a regulated output of 3V.</span>


Recently, the various methods for RF energy harvesting and reutilizing has become the challenging matter around the world to minimize the wastage of RF energy in the form of electromagnetic waves within the atmosphere. An associate approach of collecting a particular range of frequencies & conversion into dc current- Rectenna is proposed here. Star shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna is implemented as antenna for receiving RF energy at 2.44 GHz resonant frequency. It is observed that Star shaped DRA exhibits a radiated power of 0.8825 W with respect to 1W incident power and maximum gain of 5.9672 dBi. The RF power received by Antenna is given to a Rectifier circuit via proper impedance matching circuit. The rectified pulsating DC power is given to capacitor filter to suppress harmonics .


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ruichen Zhang ◽  
Ke Xiong ◽  
Wei Guo ◽  
Xi Yang ◽  
Pingyi Fan ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Antaryami Panigrahi ◽  
Digantar Paul ◽  
Shiwam Gupta ◽  
Subham Chourasia ◽  
Tushar Nath

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