Chapter 8

Design Issues in EM Energy Harvesting Systems

Gianluca Cornetta, David J. Santos, Abdellah Touhafi, and José Manuel Vázquez

Contents

8.1 Energy Harvesting: Techniques and Applications

8.2 Design Issues of RF Energy Harvesting Schemes

8.2.1 Voltage Multiplier

8.2.2 Impedance Matching

8.2.3 Power-Up Threshold

8.3 Antenna and Matching Considerations

8.3.1 Radiation and Coupling

8.3.2 Power Transfer

8.3.3 Polarization

8.3.4 Performance Estimation

8.3.5 Matching

8.4 RF-to-DC Rectifier Topologies

8.4.1 Voltage Multiplier Principle of Operation ...

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