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A switched-mode reconfigurable RF energy harvester with integrated storage controller /

Ahmed Refaat Aboulfotouh Aboulsaad

A switched-mode reconfigurable RF energy harvester with integrated storage controller / حاصد طاقة للترددات الراديوية بنمط متبدل قابل لإعادة التشكيل مع وحدة تحكم متكاملة للتخزين Ahmed Refaat Aboulfotouh Aboulsaad ; Supervised Ahmed Nader Mohieldin , Faisal Abdellatif - Cairo : Ahmed Refaat Aboulfotouh Aboulsaad , 2020 - 94 P. : charts , fsacsimiles ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electronics and Communications

This thesis presents an integrated RF energy harvesting system design approach with 2 design variants: the first variant targets to improve the performance of conventional harvesters by addressing the flaws associated with them.The second variant proposes a new architecture that replaces the diode-connected transistors with diode-emulated devices. Both designs are reconfigurable to provide wide operating range. Additionally, a voltage feedback loop is employed to regulate the output voltage in both variants.Extra available power is provided to a secondary storage unit (supercapacitor).Both systems are implemented in 130nm technology, and simulation results show that the design is superior to previous work in achieving the design aspects



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