• A compact Thévenin model for a rectenna and its application to an RF harvester with MPPT 

      Gasulla Forner, Manuel; Ripoll Vercellone, Edgar; Reverter Cubarsí, Ferran (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-04-06)
      Article
      Accés obert
      This paper proposes a compact Thévenin model for a rectenna. This model is then applied to design a high-efficiency radio frequency harvester with a maximum power point tracker (MPPT). The rectenna under study consists of ...
    • Analysis of the optimum gain of a high-pass l-matching network for rectennas 

      Gasulla Forner, Manuel; Jordana Barnils, José; Robert Sanxis, Francesc Josep; Berenguer Sau, Jordi (MDPI AG, 2017-07-25)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Rectennas, which mainly consist of an antenna, matching network, and rectifier, are used to harvest radiofrequency energy in order to power tiny sensor nodes, e.g., the nodes of the Internet of Things. This paper demonstrates ...
    • Diseño y simulación de un captador de energía optimizado para bajas potencias 

      Jamanca Lopez, Rocio Del Pilar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-18)
      Treball Final de Grau
      Accés obert
      This project presents the design and implementation from simulations of a system that allows it to capture radiofrequency energy used to supply small IoT devices with very low power consumption. Specifically, a frequency ...
    • Power efficiency maximization of an RF energy harvester by fine-tuning an L-matching network and the load 

      Jordana Barnils, José; Reverter Cubarsí, Ferran; Gasulla Forner, Manuel (Elsevier, 2015)
      Comunicació de congrés
      Accés obert
      L-matching networks have been proposed for boosting the power efficiency of radiofrequency (RF) energy harvesters. This paper shows that power efficiency is maximized by fine-tuning the components of the L-matching network ...