Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mircea Dragoman, Martino Aldrigo, Adrian Dinescu, Dan Vasilache, Sergiu Iordanescu, Daniela Dragoman
Summary: This manuscript provides an overview of the implications of nanomaterials in harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves. It highlights the use of oxides, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and molybdenum disulfide as the most advanced electromagnetic harvesting devices due to their unique physical properties. These nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize the harvesting of energy from the Sun, heat, or the Earth itself in the future.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Mohamed M. Mansour, Shota Torigoe, Shuya Yamamoto, Haruichi Kanaya
Summary: This work introduces a high-efficiency, high sensitivity, compact rectifier based on a dual-band impedance matching network for sub-1 GHz license-free applications. The rectifier design optimized for operation at sub-GHz frequency bands (0.9 to 2.4 GHz) achieves a conversion efficiency above 45% with a peak efficiency of 70% at the higher band. Potential applications for wireless RF energy harvesting are highlighted due to the simple design and integration with microwave circuits.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Ognadon Assogba, Abdoul Karim Mbodji, Arnaud Breard, Abdou Karim Diallo, Yvan Duroc
Summary: This article presents a new electromagnetic energy harvesting device, a tri-band rectenna, which is versatile and efficient. It is compatible with widely deployed radio frequency standards and offers good performance in low power and different load conditions.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yuchao Wang, Jingwei Zhang, Yidan Su, Xianwu Jiang, Cheng Zhang, Lei Wang, Qiang Cheng
Summary: In this article, a seven-band omnidirectional rectenna is proposed for harvesting RF energy in different frequency bands. The rectenna demonstrates high conversion efficiency and stable performance, making it suitable for battery-free or low-power applications in the real world.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Xiaoqiang Liu, Mingxue Li, Xinkai Chen, Yiheng Zhao, Liyi Xiao, Yufeng Zhang
Summary: This paper presents a compact RF energy harvesting wireless sensor node with integrated antenna, rectifier, energy management circuits, and load on a single printed circuit board. It achieves efficient energy management and has a small size.
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Ivona Z. Mitrovic, Saeed Almalki, Serdar B. Tekin, Naser Sedghi, Paul R. Chalker, Stephen Hall
Summary: The quest for utilizing untapped renewable infrared energy sources has spurred significant research efforts into designing, fabricating, and optimizing a self-biased rectenna that operates without external bias voltage. The focus is on the metal insulator metal (MIM) diode, which has fast response time due to femtosecond tunneling process governing current transport. Fabrication of single, double, and triple insulator MIM diodes have been reviewed, with attention to key figures of merit like zero-bias responsivity and zero-bias dynamic resistance. Various oxide combinations have been explored, with sub-nanometer accuracy in oxide stoichiometry and thicknesses seen to optimize responsivity and resistance in advanced rectennas.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Xiaoqiang Liu, Mingxue Li, Xinkai Chen, Yiheng Zhao, Liyi Xiao, Yufeng Zhang
Summary: This paper presents a compact stacked RF energy harvester operating in the WiFi band with multi-condition adaptive energy management circuits. The proposed harvester demonstrates efficient energy conversion and can drive various devices at different distances using a home router as the transmitting source.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Amina Belkadi, Ayendra Weerakkody, Gregor Lasser, Garret Moddel
Summary: Thermoradiative devices can convert low-temperature waste heat to electricity by utilizing infrared rectennas for power generation at room temperature. These devices require high diode conversion efficiency, high coupling efficiency between diode and antenna, and a large array of devices.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari, Basudev Majumder
Summary: This study explores a cost-effective dual-polarized broadband dipole antenna for RF energy harvesting. The 2 x 2 antenna arrangement over an artificial magnetic conductor surface allows for capturing RF energy from both horizontal and vertical polarizations in a multiple-input-multiple-output environment. The antenna is integrated with a single-series rectifier circuit to power an LED, demonstrating the process of capturing RF energy.
IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Yong Wang, Ningning Lu, Hucheng Sun, Rui Ren
Summary: In this paper, a dual-polarized omnidirectional rectenna array with a hybrid power-combining scheme is proposed for RF energy harvesting applications. The antenna design includes two omnidirectional antenna subarrays for horizontally polarized waves and a four-dipole subarray for vertically polarized waves, which are combined and optimized to reduce mutual interference. A power-combining network based on Wilkinson power divider and 3-dB hybrid coupler is designed to connect the antenna array and rectifiers. The fabricated and measured results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed rectenna array.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Wenzhang Zhang, Jinyao Zhang, Chaoyun Song, Rui Pei, Xuanming Zhang, Haiwen Liu, Congzheng Han, Yi Huang, Jiafeng Zhou
Summary: Due to the low available ambient power level, it is desirable to have a high gain and wide beamwidth antenna. However, it is difficult to achieve both simultaneously. In this study, a multi-port antenna using a nonuniform metasurface is proposed to overcome this limitation. By exciting three modes with complementary radiation patterns, and connecting each feed to a rectifier, the antenna achieves a wide beam and high gain effectively. The proposed rectenna has a beamwidth of 114 degrees with a gain ranging from 8 to 9.8 dBi, and an RF-to-DC conversion efficiency of 3%-67% at 2.45 GHz.
AEU-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ghada. A. Khouqeer, Nadyah Alanazi, Abdullah Alodhayb, Sibashish Chakraborty, Vimarsh Awasthi, Saravanan Pandiaraj, Gaurav Jayaswal
Summary: The world is searching for alternative ways of renewable energy to meet the increasing energy demands and reduce dependence on traditional carbon-based fuels. Researchers are exploring Infra-Red (IR) energy as a viable source of renewable energy, particularly from waste heat sources. The use of Rectenna, which integrates nanoantenna and high frequency diode, is a promising solution for harvesting IR energy. This study investigates different combinations of metal arms for high frequency operations and examines the effect of substrate on antenna performance at 28.3 THz, providing valuable insights for energy harvesting applications.
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Abdullah Alodhayb, Azat Meredov, Parul Dawar
Summary: There is a growing demand for clean and inexpensive energy sources for sustainable growth, however, depletion of fossil fuels and fluctuating oil prices have led to an increased demand for clean energy. Researchers are now seeking alternative sources of renewable energy, with Infrared (IR) energy harvesting being considered a promising contribution to fulfilling this demand.
MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
(2021)
Article
Telecommunications
Deborah Sabhan, Victor Jaya Nesamoni, Jayanthy Thangappan
Summary: The efficient spiral rectenna presented in this paper is simple, low cost, and exhibits a high power conversion efficiency of 85-88% under different conditions. Its unique feature of eliminating the need for an external matching circuit reduces complexity, cost, and size. Additionally, this rectenna performs well under different load conditions, input power levels, and with various models of schottky diodes.
WIRELESS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Delin Guo, Lan Tang, Xinggan Zhang
Summary: The study proposes a dimension reduction deep reinforcement learning (RL) method to optimize beamforming vectors and energy allocation in a multiuser multi-antenna system, achieving better simulation results than traditional algorithms in terms of steady-state performance and learning speed.
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ping Lu, Damien Voyer, Arnaud Breard, Julien Huillery, Bruno Allard, Xuefang Lin-Shi, Xue-Song Yang
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Rony Ibrahim, Damien Voyer, Mohamad El Zoghbi, Julien Huillery, Arnaud Breard, Christian Vollaire, Bruno Allard, Youssef Zaatar
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jean-Francois Mogniotte, Dominique Tournier, Christophe Raynaud, Mihai Lazar, Dominique Planson, Bruno Allard
IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
T. Zhang, B. Allard, J. Bi
MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY
(2018)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Industrial
Thilini Wickramasinghe, Bruno Allard, Cyril Buttay, Charles Joubert, Christian Martin, Jean-Fracois Mogniotte, Herve Morel, Pascal Bevilacqua, Thanh-Long Le, Stephane Azzopardi
45TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY (IECON 2019)
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Energy & Fuels
M. L. Beye, J. F. Mogniotte, L. Phung, N. Idir, H. Maher, B. Allard
2019 21ST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE '19 ECCE EUROPE)
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Energy & Fuels
Etienne Foray, Bruno Allard, Christian Martin, Giovanni Frattini
2019 21ST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE '19 ECCE EUROPE)
(2019)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Armande Capitaine, Gael Pillonnet, Bruno Allard
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Andrea Pietrelli, Nicola Lovecchio, Vincenzo Ferrara, Bruno Allard
2019 IEEE 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN SENSORS AND INTERFACES (IWASI)
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Andrea Pietrelli, Irene Bavasso, Nicola Lovecchio, Vincenzo Ferrara, Bruno Allard
2019 IEEE 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN SENSORS AND INTERFACES (IWASI)
(2019)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Do Hanh Ngan Bui, Tan-Phu Vuong, Jacques Verdier, Bruno Allard, Philippe Benech
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Industrial
J. F. Mogniotte, C. Raynaud, M. Lazar, B. Allard, D. Planson
2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (ICIT)
(2018)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Industrial
Farshid Sarrafin-ardebili, Jean-Christophe Crebier, Bruno Allard
2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (ICIT)
(2018)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sergkei Kamotesov, Philippe Lombard, Vincent Semet, Bruno Allard, Mael Moguedet, Michel Cabrera
2018 IEEE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER CONFERENCE (WPTC)
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Amokrane Malou, Bruno Allard, Alaa Hijazi, Xuefang Lin-Shi
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS
(2018)