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Matching Network For RF Energy Harvesting

This document discusses radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and the need for a matching network. It describes RF energy harvesting as collecting usable power from electromagnetic radio waves. The key components of an RF energy harvesting system are an antenna, matching circuit, rectifier and battery. A matching circuit is important to efficiently transfer power from the antenna to the rectifier by obeying the maximum power transfer theorem. The document reviews various matching circuit designs proposed in other works and highlights reconfigurable matching networks that can adjust component values to achieve optimal matching at different frequencies.

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Matching Network For RF Energy Harvesting

This document discusses radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and the need for a matching network. It describes RF energy harvesting as collecting usable power from electromagnetic radio waves. The key components of an RF energy harvesting system are an antenna, matching circuit, rectifier and battery. A matching circuit is important to efficiently transfer power from the antenna to the rectifier by obeying the maximum power transfer theorem. The document reviews various matching circuit designs proposed in other works and highlights reconfigurable matching networks that can adjust component values to achieve optimal matching at different frequencies.

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“Matching Network for RF Energy Harvesting”

Presented by-
Md Ahsan Halimi
Scholar No: 19-3-04-105
Dept. of ECE, NIT
Silchar

Under the Supervision of


Dr. Taimoor Khan
Assistant Professor
Dept. of ECE, NIT Silchar 1
Contents
 What is Energy Harvesting?
 What is RF Energy Harvesting?
 Components of RFEH System
 Matching circuit
 Need of Matching Network for RF energy
harvesting
 Conclusion
 References

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What is Energy Harvesting?
Energy harvesting is the process by which energy is derived from
external sources (e.g., solar power, thermal energy, RF signals, wind
energy etc., also known as ambient energy), captured, and stored
for small, wireless autonomous devices, like those used in wearable
electronics and wireless sensor networks etc.

Fig: Ambient energy sources.

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Contd…

Fig: Block diagram of energy harvester[1].

1. Sleebi K. Divakaran, Deepti Das Krishna, and Nasimuddin, “RF energy harvesting
systems: An overview and design issues,” Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng, pp. 1-15,
2019.
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What is RF Energy Harvesting?

 Radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) is an energy


conversion technique employed for converting energy from the
electromagnetic (EM) field into the electrical domain (i.e., into
voltages and currents).

 Radio Frequency harvesting is a process of collecting usable


power from the radio waves released from a base station[2].

 The various RF energy sources are, namely, WiFi, WLAN,


Digital TV, AM, FM, GSM, Bluetooth, etc[3].

2. Esraa Mousa Ali, Nor Zaihar Yahaya, Perumal Nallagownden, and Mohd Azman
Zakariya, “A novel rectifying circuit for microwave power harvesting system,”Int J RF
Microw Comput Aided Eng, pp. 1-11, jan 2017.
3. G. Sung, J. Syu and Y. Lai, "Radio-frequency energy harvesting chip for ISM 915 MHz
antenna," 2018 7th International Symposium on Next Generation Electronics (ISNE),
Taipei, 2018, pp. 1-3.
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Ambient RF Energy
sources

Fig: RF energy sources  6


RF Energy Harvesting the Concept

Tx
Rx

Base
station

Fig: RF energy harvesting system[4]


4. A. Eid et al., "An efficient RF energy harvesting system," 2017 11th European Conference
on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Paris, 2017, pp. 896-899. 7
Components of RFEH System
1. Receiving antenna
2. Matching circuit
3. Rectifier
4. Battery
 Power that receive by receiver antenna is alternative in nature, so it is
important to have circuit that can convert the ac power to dc power
since most of solid-state device require a source of dc power to
operate.
 To efficient transfer of received RF power by antenna to rectifier
circuit, matching network is needed.
 Basically, a rectenna is a type of antenna functioned to rectify
incoming electromagnetics (EM) waves and converting into DC

Fig: Schematic diagram of receiving RECTENNA 8


Matching circuit

Impedance mismatch occurs when RA≠Rrec,s or Xrec,s≠XA. In such


a scenario, the antenna is not able to deliver the full available power
to the rectifier.

Fig.: Antenna-rectifier interface with impedance matching network[6]

5. W. Serdijn, A. Mansano, M. Stoopman, "Introduction to RF energy


harvesting“ in Wearable Sensors., Elsevier, pp. 299-322, 2014.

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Need of Matching Network for RF energy harvesting

 Power that receive by receiver antenna is alternative in


nature.

 To deliver the full available power from antenna to rectifier,


ie., for efficient RF to DC conversion matching circuit play
great role.

 So it is important to have circuit between receiving antenna


and rectifier, to obey maximum power transfer theorem.

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Contd...
Table 1 Matching circuits for WEH
[Ref] Details Observation
Year
[6] N. Soltani, F. Yuan, and S. Member, “A High-Gain Power- Transformer power-
2010 Matching Technique for Efficient Radio-Frequency Power matching and gain-boosting
Harvest of Passive Wireless Microsystems,” IEEE Trans. technique is applied.
CIRCUITS Syst., vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 2685–2695, 2010.

[7] P. Zhao and M. Glesner, “RF Energy Harvester Design with Adaptive Impedance
2011 Autonomously Adaptive Impedance Matching Network Matching Network Based on
Based on Auxiliary Charge-Pump Rectifier,” pp. 2477– Auxiliary Charge-Pump
2480, 2011. Rectifier is proposed.

[8] T. Feng and S. Chakrabartty, “Analysis and Design of High A matching network that
2012 Efficiency Inductive Power-Links using a Novel Matching overcomes the threshold
Strategy,” pp. 1172–1175, 2012. -voltage limitation by
enhancing the Q-factor of
the voltage-multiplier

[9] C. Felini, M. Merenda, and F. G. Della Corte, “Dynamic RF-DC conversion circuit
2014 impedance matching network for RF energy harvesting with a dynamic impedance
systems,” IEEE RFID Technol. Appl. Conf., pp. 86–90, 2014. matching network for high
efficiency and battery-free
operations is proposed.
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Contd...
Table 1 Matching circuits for WEH

[Ref] Details Observation


Year
[10] V. Kuhn, F. Seguin, C. Lahuec, and C. Person, “Matching An impedance matching
2015 network improvement for RF energy harvesters in Body network is designed for
Sensor Area Network context,” Proc. 45th Eur. Microw. Conf., an RF energy harvester
pp. 303–306, 2015. used in the context of
Body Sensor Area
Networks.

[11] G. C. Martins, S. Member, and W. A. Serdijn, “Multistage Multistage matching


2016 Complex-Impedance Matching Network Analysis and networks at a single
Optimization,” IEEE Trans. CIRCUITS Syst., vol. 63, no. 9, pp. frequency using lumped
833–837, 2016. Components is designed

[12] C. Merz, G. Kupris, and A. E. Harvesting, “High Q Impedance High Q matching circuits
2016 Matching for RF Energy Harvesting Applications,” 3rd IEEE in the 13.56 MHz band is
Int. Symp. Wirel. Syst. within Conf. Intell. Data Acquis. Adv. designed using crystal
Comput. Syst. 26-27 Sept. 2016, Offenburg, Ger., no. resonator in place of
September, pp. 45–50, 2016. inductor and capacitor
that increase the overall
efficiency.
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Reconfigurable Matching Circuit for WEH
The maximum power transfer can also achieved through a
reconfigurable matching network, in which the values of some
elements can be adjusted to guarantee the best matching at the
required frequency.
Table 2 Reconfigurable matching circuits for WEH

[Ref] Details Observation


Year
[13] P. Zhao, Y. Zheng, and M. Glesner, “Automatic Imepdance An auxiliary circuit is
2010 Matching in Microwave Power Harvesters,” pp. 7–10, 2010. used for generating the
feedback control signals
to tune the matching
network

[14] L. Scucchia, M. Palomba, R. Cleriti, W. Ciccognani, and E. A reconfigurable


2014 Limiti, “Reconfigurable Matching Network for RF Energy matching network is
Harvesting Circuits,” pp. 1–3, 2014. designed using variable
capacitor

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Conclusion

 It is observed that the literature on co-design


approach to model matching circuit is widely
explored for its low cost and ease in
implementation.
 Low loss because of maximum power will transfer
from receiving antenna to rectifier circuit.
 Efficiency will increase

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Thank You

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