Part of the Wireless Without Batteries lecture series. We discuss various how the state-of-the-art in nano-devices are used in RF energy-harvesting and their fundamental limits at low power levels.
WWB04: Exotic Devices and Limits of RF Harvesting
Paper: S. Hemour and K. Wu, “Radio-Frequency Rectifier for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting: Development Path and Future Outlook,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 102, no. 11, pp. 1667–1691, Nov 2014.
Reading: T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, 2nd ed, Ch 4, 2003.