Design and measurement of a contactless interface between a dipole antenna and a CMOS fully integrated wireless power receiver

Here, the authors present a study on a contactless interface between a fully integrated wireless power receiver (WPR) and a dipole antenna. The authors analyse the impedance matching between the antenna and the inductive link formed by the contactless interface for providing an appropriate design methodology. Furthermore, the authors developed a measurement strategy to verify the entire system comprised by a pair of dipole antennas, the inductive link, and the CMOS WPR. The results show that the CMOS die is well coupled to the antenna, the complete system operates correctly with a source of 26.6 dBm at 987 MHz when the distance between the dipole antennas is 58 cm.

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