A High-Efficient Wireless Power Receiver for Hybrid Energy-Harvesting Sources

This article presents a power-efficient hybrid energy-harvesting system that scavenges energy from solar, vibration, and radio frequency (RF) energy sources and converts into regulated output dc voltage courtesy buck–boost dc–dc converter. The proposed architecture incorporates tetra-paths for maintaining high power conversion efficiency (PCE) over extended input power range (−10 to 30 dBm). A time-domain maximum power point tracking technique is proposed for solar energy harvester. A high-efficiency full wave rectifier is designed for triboelectric rectifier. A 5.8-GHz RF-dc converter with adaptive matching is proposed to increase dynamic range of the input power. The chip is implemented in 0.18-µm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS process. The die area of the chip is 2.8 mm × 5.0 mm, including the pads. The solar and triboelectric energy harvesters achieve a measured peak efficiencies of 75.4% and 92.3%, respectively. The high-power 5.8-GHz RF-dc converter achieves measured PCE of 76% at 30 dBm input power. The low-power dual-band RF-dc converter operating at 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz obtains measured peak efficiencies of 73% and 71.9% at 0 dBm input, respectively. The buck–boost dc–dc converter employed in the proposed hybrid energy harvesting system achieves a measured peak PCE of 94.5%.

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