RF Energy Harvesting

Jakub Szut; Paweł Piątek; Mariusz Pauluk

doi:10.3390/en17051204

Energies (Mar 2024)

RF Energy Harvesting

Jakub Szut,
Paweł Piątek,
Mariusz Pauluk

Affiliations

Jakub Szut: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Paweł Piątek: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Mariusz Pauluk: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en17051204
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 5
p. 1204

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This article presents research on the usefulness of three different electric circuit simulation environments for exploring energy harvesting from electromagnetic waves using energy harvesters. The software that is compared includes KiCad EDA, LT Spice and MATLAB Simscape Electrical.Too prepare a common background for the results comparison, crucial equations that combine RF transmission with energy are presented. Commercially available harvesters are also presented. An overview of the state-of-the-art research on this topic is summarised. In order to verify software using conditions that are similar to real ones, the power available at the 868 MHZ ISM band, which is close to the LTE bands used for telecommunications, is calculated. The results obtained using different software are close to being identical for all tested simulation environments.

Published in Energies

ISSN: 1996-1073 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies

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