Extending Wireless Power Transfer Range for Self-Powered Micro Devices with mm-size Antenna
2023 (English)In: 2023 21ST IEEE INTERREGIONAL NEWCAS CONFERENCE, NEWCAS, IEEE , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Extending the wireless power transfer range in miniaturized remotely powered micro-devices is a big challenge due to the very small effective area and low gain of the mm-sized antenna utilized in the micro-devices, which limits the harvested RF energy. This paper presents a method for increasing the separation distance between an external energy source antenna as a transmitter (TX) and micro device antenna as a receiver (RX) beyond 10 cm by utilizing various TX antennas, including a conventional loop antenna, multiple patch antennas, and a rectangular cavity antenna, and a 2-turn double-sided square loop RX antenna, sized 1.2mm x 1.2mm on FR4 substrate, which can be mounted on top of a CMOS SoC. The performance of the wireless power transfer system is evaluated and compared in different scenarios. At the 434 MHz ISM band, the results indicate that the highest peak power transfer efficiency of -20 dB and the highest harvested DC voltage of 4 V through an 8-stage Dickson RF-DC converter are obtained inside the rectangular hollow cavity sized 49.6cm x 49.6cm x 30.4cm, as TX, with an input TX power of 20 dBm. Furthermore, the multiple patch antennas have a power transfer efficiency of -39 dB and a harvested DC voltage of 2.5 V at a distance of 10 cm with an input TX power of 37 dBm. The specific absorption rate of both cases stays below the limits established by IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE , 2023.
Series
IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference, ISSN 2472-467X
Keywords [en]
cavity resonators; energy harvesting; inductive coupling; multiple patch antennas; off-chip antenna; power transfer efficiency; radiative near-field; wireless power transfer
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197927DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS57931.2023.10198096ISI: 001050763800066ISBN: 9798350300246 (electronic)ISBN: 9798350300253 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197927DiVA, id: diva2:1799105
Conference
21st IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS), Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, jun 26-28, 2023
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) [RMX18-0066]
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