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RF Harvesting Energy
RF Harvesting Energy
RF Harvesting Energy
Sensor
Jun Wu Zhang, Xiang Yu Zhang, Zhuang Liang Chen, Kye Yak See, Cher Ming Tan, Shou Shun Chen
Division of Circuit & system, School of EEE
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Zhan0291@e.ntu.edu.sg
Antenna
Matching
Circuit
AC-DC
Rectifier
Storage
Capcitor
Voltage
Regulator
1.8V
I.
INTRODUCTION
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Fig. 1
(1)
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nd
st
2 stage
1 stage
Fig. 2
Nth stage
0.9
OUTPUT CAHRACTERIZATION
0.8
0.7
0.6
0
12
16
20
Capacitance of CN1 (pF)
24
28
32
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certain voltage level and the image sensor is turned on. The
energy stored in the capacitor will be consumed by the image
sensor and the voltage across the storage capacitor decays. The
number of frames captured by the image sensor during the
process is recorded.
10
9
Number of frames obtained
9.5
1.5mF
2.2mF
7.375
7.25
7
6
5
5.0625
4.75
4
3.125
3
1.625
2
1
0.875
0
1.85
1.9
1.95
Initial voltage (V)
2.05
Fig. 6 No. of frames versus the initial voltage on the storage capacitor. (note:
the value of the storage capacitor is 2.2mF)
2.1
-1.9 dBm
-0.8 dBm
0.2 dBm
2
1.9
Voltage (V)
1.8
1.7
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
0
20
40
60
Time elapsed (sec)
80
100
(a)
2.1
-1.9 dBm
2
-0.8 dBm
0.2 dBm
1.9
1.8
Voltage over storage cap
1.7
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
0
20
40
60
80
Time elapsed (sec)
100
120
140
(b)
Fig. 7 (a) Voltage over 2.2mF storage capacitor versus time elapsed. (b)
Voltage over 1.5mF storage capacitor versus time elapsed. The legend shows
the calculated input power.
V.
MEASUREMENT RESULTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by start-up grant of Assistant
Professorship (M58040012) from NTU and AcRF research
grant (M52040132) from Ministry of Education, Singapore.
The authors would like to thank Mr. Tang Ding for his
assistance in measurement.
REFERENCES
CONCLUSION
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