{"title":"A UHF rectifier with one octave bandwidth based on a non-uniform transmission line","authors":"Ferran Bolós, D. Belo, A. Georgiadis","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2016.7540083","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ambient RF energy especially in urban settings is suitable for scavenging and harvesting scenarios provided one is able to collect signals from a large number of frequency bands and consequently spanning a large aggregate bandwidth. In this work a broadband rectifier is designed capable of harvesting RF energy in the 400 MHz - 1 GHz range, which includes the analog and digital TV bands and the UHF ISM 900 MHz band. In order to obtain a sufficiently large rectifier bandwidth, a matching network based on a non-uniform transmission line is considered. A charge pump rectifier is used and the number of diodes in the circuit is optimized in order to facilitate impedance matching based on the Bode-Fano limit. A prototype is fabricated and characterized. The rectifier has a measured efficiency above 5% from 470 MHz to 990 MHz at -20 dBm input power, which increases above 60% at 10 dBm input power over a band from 470 MHz to 860 MHz.","PeriodicalId":6554,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"32","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2016.7540083","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Ambient RF energy especially in urban settings is suitable for scavenging and harvesting scenarios provided one is able to collect signals from a large number of frequency bands and consequently spanning a large aggregate bandwidth. In this work a broadband rectifier is designed capable of harvesting RF energy in the 400 MHz - 1 GHz range, which includes the analog and digital TV bands and the UHF ISM 900 MHz band. In order to obtain a sufficiently large rectifier bandwidth, a matching network based on a non-uniform transmission line is considered. A charge pump rectifier is used and the number of diodes in the circuit is optimized in order to facilitate impedance matching based on the Bode-Fano limit. A prototype is fabricated and characterized. The rectifier has a measured efficiency above 5% from 470 MHz to 990 MHz at -20 dBm input power, which increases above 60% at 10 dBm input power over a band from 470 MHz to 860 MHz.