Hybrid Printed Energy Harvesting Technology for Self-Sustainable Autonomous Sensor Application
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Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 777 Atlantic Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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Sensors 2019, 19(3), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19030728
Received: 30 November 2018
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Revised: 7 February 2019
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Accepted: 9 February 2019
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Published: 11 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Passive Electromagnetic Sensors for Autonomous Wireless Networks)
In this paper, the far-field energy harvesting system for self-sustainable wireless autonomous sensor application is presented. The proposed autonomous sensor system consists of a wireless power supplier (active antenna) and far-field energy harvesting technology-enabled autonomous battery-less sensors. The wireless power supplier converts solar power to electromagnetic power in order to transfer power to multiple autonomous sensors wirelessly. The autonomous sensors have far-field energy harvesters which convert transmitted RF power to voltage regulated DC power to power-on the sensor system. The hybrid printing technology was chosen to build the autonomous sensors and the wireless power suppliers. Two popular hybrid electronics technologies (direct nano-particle printing and indirect copper thin film printing techniques) are discussed in detail.
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Keywords:
inkjet printing; hybrid printed electronics; energy harvesting; self-sustainable wireless sensor
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Kim, S.; Tentzeris, M.M.; Georgiadis, A. Hybrid Printed Energy Harvesting Technology for Self-Sustainable Autonomous Sensor Application. Sensors 2019, 19, 728. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19030728
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Kim S, Tentzeris MM, Georgiadis A. Hybrid Printed Energy Harvesting Technology for Self-Sustainable Autonomous Sensor Application. Sensors. 2019; 19(3):728. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19030728
Chicago/Turabian StyleKim, Sangkil, Manos M. Tentzeris, and Apostolos Georgiadis. 2019. "Hybrid Printed Energy Harvesting Technology for Self-Sustainable Autonomous Sensor Application" Sensors 19, no. 3: 728. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19030728
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