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Transparent Rectenna Farms

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Using inkjet printed circuits on a transparent substrate for microwave energy harvesting for space based solar power

Hiba Murali; John Bell; Qi Cheng; Kevin Mairena; Erik Centeno; Gregory D. Durgin; Evan Shi
2017 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE)

This paper explains how to build a transparent rectenna farm cheaply.  The ability to cover square kilometers with expensive, transparent microwave harvesting circuitry — and re-using the land for agriculture, for example — is a key to making space solar power affordable.

Inaugural Issue of IEEE Journal on RFID

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The inaugural issue of the IEEE Journal on RFID is here.  Browse the issue here. Congratulations to Mike, Raj, Cheng, and Brian for getting papers into this first edition. Special thanks to the guest editor Pavel Nikitin for all the heavy lifting of launching a journal and a special issue all at once!