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Apostolos GeorgiadisCentre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
(CTTC)Barcelona - Spain
Autonomous Wireless Sensors and RFID's: Energy harvesting Material and Circuit Challenges
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CTTC, Castelldefels – Barcelona
• Founded in 2001• Permanent research staff: 34 Ph.D., 24 M.Sc.
7 Assoc. Researchers• 3500-m2 building• 7 Research Areas: Hardware eng., Radio, Access,
Communications Subsystems, IP, Optical networking, IQe
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• Energy Harvesting and RFID
• Oscillator design including integrated CMOS oscillators (Fig. 1)
• Active antennas, phased arrays (Fig. 2), retro-directive arrays (Fig. 3)
• Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) (Fig. 4)
• Efficient Power Amplifier
Active microwave circuit design
Fig. 1. CMOS VCO for UWB-FM
Fig. 2. C-band Coupled Oscillator Reflectrarray prototype
Fig. 3. S-band retro-directive array.Fig. 4. SIW circuits.
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Outline
• Introduction / Motivation
• Energy harvesting solutions and challenges
− Solar, Mechanical,
Thermal, Electromagnetic
• Flexible Materials
• Integration of Harvesting Modules
• Summary
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Introduction
• Ubiquitous sensor networks
− Monitoring (environment, wild-life), security, health…
− Conformal and low profile circuit topologies
− Low cost (manufacturing, material and maintenance)
• Autonomous operation
− Operating with high efficiency
− Minimize dissipated power / maximize harvested power
• Green networks
− Environmental friendly materials and fabrication (Spent batteries pose a significant waste management concern)
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Energy Harvesting
• Choice of harvesting module(s) is application
dependent
• Hybrid harvesting modules required to guarantee
sensor autonomy
• Transducer efficiency depends on available power
density
• Storage modules must also be considered
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Energy Harvesting
[1] Silicon Solar Inc., Flexible Solar Panels 3V, http://www.siliconsolar.com/flexible-solar-panels-3v-051282-p-500992.html.
[2] Perpetuum, http://www.perpetuum.com/.
[3] MicroPelt Inc., TEG MPG-D751. http://www.micropelt.com.
[4] A. Georgiadis, G. Andia, and A. Collado, "Rectenna Design and Optimization Using Reciprocity Theory and Harmonic Balance Analysis for Electromagnetic (EM) Energy Harvesting, " IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 444-446, July 2010.
Energy Sources Harvested power
examples
Conditions
Light / Solar 60 mW 6.3 cm x 3.8 cm Flexible solar cell
AM1.5G Sunlight (100 mWcm-2) [1]
Kinetic
Mechanical
20 mW PMG-FSH Electromagnetic
transducer[2]
Thermal 0.52 mW Thermoelectric Generator TEG [3]
Electromagnetic 0.0015 mW Ambient power density
0.15 uWcm-2 [4]
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Energy Harvesting
Thad Starner, 'Human powered wearable computing', IBM systems journal, vol. 35, no. 3-4, 1996
Human Body SourcesTotal available power
from body
Available power for
harvesting
Body heat 2.8W - 4.8 W0.2-0.32 W
(neck brace)
Breathing band 0.83 W 0.42 W
Walking 67 W 5.0-8.3 W
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Solar Energy Harvesting
• Photovoltaic Effect
(Observed by Becquerel 1839)
• American Society for
Testing and Materials
(ASTM)
Reference Solar Spectra
• ETR Spectral Irradiance
Distribution is modeled as
black-body radiation
with T= 5800 K
• Atmosphere Absorption
bands visible
• Principles of thermodynamics and black-body radiation allow to
estimate performance limits of solar cells
(Shockley-Queisser Limit 1961)
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Solar Energy Harvesting
• wafer based solar cells (150 $/m2 – efficiency 20%)
• thin film solar cells
(30 $/m2 – efficiency 5-10%)
• third generation solar cells
(high efficiency, low cost)
Cost ($/m2)
20
40
60
80
100
0100 200 300 400 5000
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M. Green, Third Generation Photovoltaics,
Advanced Solar Energy Conversion,
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006.
Challenges
High efficiency and low cost
Integration with other circuitry
Indoor conditions?
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Solar Energy Harvesting
• Solar cell efficiency, measured under AM1.5G at T = 25 C
Classification Efficiency (%) Voc (V) Js (mAcm-2) FF (%) Description
c-Si 25 0.706 42.7 82.8 UNSW PERL
mc-Si 20.4 0.664 38 80.9 FhG-ISE
GaAs (thin film) 28.1 1.111 29.4 85.9 Alta Devices
CIGS 19.6 0.713 34.8 79.2 NREL
CdTe 16.7 0.845 26.1 75.5 NREL
a-Si 10.1 0.886 16.75 67 Oerlikon Solar Lab
Dye Sensitised 10.9 0.736 21.7 68 Sharp
Organic polymer 8.3 0.816 14.46 70.2 Konarka
M.A. Green, K. Emery, Y. Hishikawa and W. Warta, ‘Solar cell efficiency tables (version 38),’
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 19, pp. 565-572, May 2011
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• Conversion of mechanical movements
to electrical energy
– Vibrations
– Displacements
– Forces or pressures
• Sources
– Traffic
– Human movement
– Heating, Ventilating and AC (HVAC)
– Air currents
– Water movement
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13 Kinetic/Vibration Energy Harvesting
• Transducer types:
Electromagnetic (inductive)
- Faraday’s law
Electrostatic (capacitive)
- Vary the capacitance or charge of a
variable capacitor
Piezoelectric
- Piezoelectric strain d tensor relating
Mechanical Stress T to Electric
Displacement D
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• Vibration transducers modeled by
mass m, attached to a frame using a
spring k [*].
• Mechanical to electric conversion
losses included in d.
Pemax = m2A2/(8d)y(t) = Yo sin(wt) A = w2Yo
[*] C.B. Williams and R.B. Yates, ‘Analysis of a Micro-Electric Generator for Microsystems,’ in
Proc. 8th International Conference on Solid-state Sensors and Actuators and Eurosensors IX,
Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 369-372, June 25-29, 1995.
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• Require low frequency high-Q resonators
• Application dependentApplication / Vibration source Vibration
frequency (Hz)
Acceleration
amplitude (ms-2)
Door Frame (after door closes) 125 3
Clothes Dryer 121 3.5
Washing Machine 109 0.5
HVAC vents in office building 60 0.2-1.5
Refrigerator 240 0.1
Small microwave over 121 2.25
External windows next to busy street 100 0.7
S. Roundy, "On the Effectiveness of Vibration-based Energy Harvesting,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, vol. 16 no. 10, pp. 809-823, Oct. 2005.
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Challenges:
Self-tuning / Adaptive tuning, Wideband / Multiband
Description Frequency (Hz) Power
(mW)
REF
MEMS AlN Piezoelectric 325 0.085 [*]
JouleThief Piezoelectric 50, 60, 100, 120 1.2 [**]
PMG-FSH Electromagnetic 50, 60, 100, 120 20 [***]
[*] R. Elfrink, et al., "First autonomous wireless sensor node powered by a vacuum-packaged piezoelectric
MEMS energy harvester," in Proc. IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), pp.1-4, 7-9 Dec. 2009.
[**] JouleThief, AdaptivEnergy.
[***] PMG FSH, Perpetuum.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
• Conversion of temperature differences to
electrical energy.
• Sources
• Waste heat from industrial plants
• Heating systems
• Automobiles, other vehicles
• Human body
• Three thermoelectric
phenomena.
• Seebeck
• Peltier
• Thomson
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
• The Seebeck coefficient is much higher for semiconductor
materials rather than metals and metal alloys, where it can
reach magnitudes of 1mV/K.
• Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are formed by pairs of
coupled of N-doped and P-doped semiconductor pellets
connected electrically in series and placed between two
thermally conductive plates.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
• Gulielmo Marconi
• ~ 1895
• Villa Griffone,
Bologna, Italy
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
• Thermoelectric
Figure Of Merit:
• High Seebeck Coefficient (α)
• High Electrical Conductivity (σ)
• Low Thermal Conductivity (λ)
S. Beeby and N. White, Energy Harvesting for
Autonomous Sensors, Artech House 2010.
ZT � α�σT
λ
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
Wrist watch: SEIKO thermic
~ 20-40 uW required to power a quartz digital wrist-watch
S. Beeby and N. White, Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems,
Norwood: Artech House, 2010.
S. Kotanagi, et al., “Watch Provided with Thermoelectric Generation Unit,”
Patent No. WO/1999/019775.
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Thermal Energy Harvesting
Challenge:
Increase conversion efficiency and maintain temperature
gradient
Conversion Efficiency limited by Carnot Efficiency
n < ( THOT – TCOLD ) / THOT
Example:
TCOLD = 293 K (20 C) and THOT = 303 K (30 C) => n < 3,3 %
TCOLD = 233 K (-40 C) and THOT = 293 K (20 C) => n < 20,48 %
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φ � n� 2 0.5n� � 4/ZT�����
Conversion efficiency
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• Conversion of ambient low power
electromagnetic sources to electrical power
• An Electric field of 1V/m in air corresponds to an EM power
density of 0.26 uW/cm2
• Key element: Rectenna
(Brown US3434678, 1969).
• Application dependent.
• Conversion efficiency
for available input power
of ~ -20 dBm is 10% - 20%.
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Challenges:
• Compact antenna elements, arbitrary polarization, broadband, multi-band designs
• EM simulation to model radiating element.
• Nonlinear optimization to model rectenna circuit and optimize rectifier taking into account the antenna properties.
• Antenna in receiving mode(Norton, Thevenin equivalent, Reciprocity)
• Measurement campaigns necessary
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Rectenna design example
• 2.40GHz - 2.48GHz ISM band
• Aperture coupled patch topology:
• Circuit and radiator layers are made of Arlon A25N 20mil thick
• Separated by a Rohacell51 layer of 6mm in order to achieve the desired bandwidth.
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Circularly polarized rectenna
O. A. Campana Escala, G. A. Sotelo Bazan, Apostolos Georgiadis, and Ana Collado, "A 2.45 GHz Rectenna with Optimized RF-to-DC Conversion Efficiency," PIERS, Marrakesh, Morocco, March 20-23, 2011.
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Thevenin equivalent of antenna in receive
mode.
A.Georgiadis, G. Andia-Vera, A. Collado “Rectenna design and optimization using
reciprocity theory and harmonic balance analysis for electromagnetic (EM) energy
harvesting,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters,
vol. 9, pp. 444-446, 2010.
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• Open circuit voltage maybe calculated using reciprocity theory
• One may optimize in harmonic balance the efficiency at a desired direction of arrival.
Power Harvesting: Electromagnetic Energy
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A.Georgiadis, G. Andia-Vera, A. Collado “Rectenna design and optimization using reciprocity theory and harmonic balance analysis for electromagnetic (EM) energy harvesting,” IEEE Antennas and WirelessPropagation Letters, vol. 9, pp. 444-446, 2010.
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• Circuit topologyimportantin low available powerconditions
• Trade-off betweenefficiencyand output voltage
Power Harvesting: Electromagnetic Energy
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• Challenge: determine available power
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Flexible Substrates
• Flexible substrates
− Paper
− Liquid crystalline polymer
(LCP)
− Textile
− Metal coated PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
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Flexible Substrates
Paper− Dielectric constant (*):
3.3 (@ 2 GHz)
− Loss tangent (*): 0.08 (@ 2 GHz)
− Can be made hydrophobic
− Inkjet printing
− Cost : very low
−Multilayer capability
Li Yang, et. al, ‘ RFID Tag and RF Structures on a Paper Substrate
Using Inkjet-printing Technology, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory
and Techniques, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 2894-2901, Dec, 2007.
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Flexible Substrates
PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate)· Dielectric constant:
3.3 (@ 0.9 GHz)
· Loss tangent: 0.05 (@ 0.9 GHz)
· Thickness: 50 um – 100 um
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Liquid crystalline polymer (LCP)· Dielectric constant: 2.9 (@ 10 GHz)
· Loss tangent: 0.0025 (@ 10 GHz)
· Water absorption < 0.04%
· Lamination < 282º C
· Multilayer capability
· Laser drilling (YAG, CO2)
· Low cost
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Flexible SubstratesTextile materials
• Substrates: natural or man-made fibers, Synthetic fibers:
Textile Aramid FleeceUpholstery
fabricVellux Cordura
PropertiesStrongHeat
resistant
Driesrapidly
Mixture of polyester
and polyacryl
Synthetic fibre covered
by thin layers of foam
Polyamidefiber
Dielectric constant
1,85 1,25
Loss tangent 0,015 0,019
P. Salonen, et. al, ‘Effect of Textile Materials on Wearable Antenna Performance: A Case
Study of GPS Antennas,’ IEEE AP-S, pp. 459-462, 2004.
C. Hertleer et. al. ‘Aperture-Coupled Patch Antenna for Integration Into Wearable
Textile Systems, IEEE AWPL vol. 6, p. 392-395, 2007.
F. Declercq, et al. ‘Permittivity and Loss Tangent Characterization for Garment Antennas
Based on a New Matrix Pencil Two-Line Method,’ IEEE T-AP vol. 56, no. 8,
pp. 2548-2554, Aug. 2008
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Flexible Substrates
Conductive Textiles· FlecTron, Zelt, ShiedIt, Global EMC
· ShieldIt has adhesive backing(can be glued, stitched, sewn, ironed to substrate)
· Surface Resistivity (0.02-0.05 Ohm/sq)
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Integration
Possibilities
• Smart textiles
• MEMS (sensors)
• Hybrid harvesting modules
• Organic electronics
Challenges
• Washability, Strechability, User comfort, Conformal shape
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Integration
Shad Roundy, Brian P. Otis, Yuen-Hui Chee, Jan M. Rabaey, Paul Wright, A 1.9GHz RF Transmit Beacon
using Environmentally Scavenged Energy IEEE Int. Symposium on Low Power Elec. and Devices, 2003,
Seoul, Korea.
M. Tanaka, R. Suzuki, Y. Suzuki, K. Araki, "Microstrip antenna with solar cells for microsatellites," IEEE
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (AP-S), vol. 2, pp. 786-789, 20-24 June 1994.
S. Vaccaro, J.R. Mosig, P. de Maagt , Two Advanced Solar Antenna “SOLANT”
Designs for Satellite and Terrestrial Communications, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
vol. 51, no. 8, Aug. 2003, p. 2028-2034
Solar / Electromagnetic
harvester
1.9GHz/-1.5 dBm
Transmitter
2.4x3.9 cm2
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Integration
• Textile /flexible foam passive and active circuit integration.
• Wearable smart fabric with sensing and communication (transmission) capabilities.
F.Declercq, A. Georgiadis and H. Rogier, ‘Wearable Aperture-Coupled Shorted Solar Patch Antenna
for Remote Tracking Applications,’ EuCAP, Rome, April 2011.
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Integration
Solar / Electromagnetic
harvester
• Ultra-wideband rectenna /
solar harvester
• Reconfigurable bands,
Multiband design
• Measurements under
bended conditions
• Propagation
environments
A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, S. Via and C. Meneses, "Flexible Hybrid Solar/EM Energy
Harvester for Autonomous Sensors", in Proc. 2011 IEEE MTT-S Intl. Microwave
Symposium (IMS), Baltimore, US, June 5-10, 2011.
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Integration
Solar powered
Active oscillator antenna
• Beacon signal generator
• Coplanar folded slot antenna
• Dissipates 9 mWMultiband design
• Solar cell capable to provideup to 60 mW
• 927 MHz operation
Francesco Giuppi, Apostolos Georgiadis, Selva Via, Ana Collado, Rushi Vyas,
Manos M. Tentzeris and Maurizio Bozzi , ‘A 927 MHz Solar Powered Active Antenna
Oscillator Beacon Signal Generator, ‘ RWW 2012, Santa Clara.
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Solar Beacon Signal Generator
• 927 MHz beacon signal
• Active antenna oscillator
• Solar powered
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Solar Beacon Signal Generator
• 920 MHz beacon signal
• Active antenna oscillator
• PET substrate
• Solar powered
A. Georgiadis, A. Collado, S. Kim, H. Lee, M. M. Tentzeris, ‘UHF Solar Powered Active Oscillator Antenna on Low Cost Flexible Substrates for Wireless Identification Applications,’ to appear at MTT-S IMS 2012.
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Solar Beacon Signal Generator
Frequency (M
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Solar Passive RFID Tag
A. Georgiadis and A. Collado, ‘Improving Range of Passive RFID Tags Utilizing Energy Harvesting and High Efficiency Class-E Oscillators,’ to appear at EuCAP 2012
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• Proof of concept: RFID tag and wireless
power transmission
• Using Impinj reader
and RF signal generator
− Read rate improvement
− Saturation
Performance Evaluation
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Read rate (%)
Read rate (%)
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• Using Impinj reader and oscillator
• Measured 3 dBm less
reader power for
maximum read rate
Performance Evaluation
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• Improved RF to DC conversion efficiency when using chaotic signals.
Output power (dbm)
433 MHz chaotic generator
A. Collado, A. Georgiadis, "Improving Wireless Power Transmission Efficiency Using Chaotic Waveforms," to appear at IEEE MTT-S IMS 2012, Montreal, 17-22 June 2012.
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rectifier circuit with optimized efficiency at 433 MHz
• Total power of 1-tone signal selected to be equal to the chaotic signal total power in the bandwidth of the rectifier
Signal Waveform Design for Improved Efficiency
Output power (dbm)
A. Collado, A. Georgiadis, "Improving Wireless Power Transmission Efficiency Using Chaotic Waveforms," to appear at IEEE MTT-S IMS 2012, Montreal, 17-22 June 2012.
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− DC voltage for the 1-tone signal is 0.76V (46% RF to DC conversion efficiency)
− DC voltage for chaotic signal is 0.91 V (66% RF to DC conversion efficiency)
Signal Waveform Design for Improved Efficiency
Input power = -6.5 dBm
A. Collado, A. Georgiadis, "Improving Wireless Power Transmission Efficiency Using Chaotic Waveforms," to appear at IEEE MTT-S IMS 2012, Montreal, 17-22 June 2012.
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Energy Harvesting - Example
• Harvester output: 2.5V, 0.5mA (1.25mW)
• Required TX Pulsed transmission: 2.5 V, 20mA (50mW), with a pulse duration of T = 10 ms.
• Maximum duty cycle: DC = 100*1.25/50 = 2.5%
• Burst rate: T/DC = 0.01/0.025 = 0.4sec or 2.5Hz
• If harvester output is 10 uW => Burst rate 50 sec
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Power Management
Voltage Regulators –Storage Units
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Summary
• Energy Harvesting Technologies
• Low cost, flexible materials and fabrication techniques
• Hybrid harvesting systems and integration
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Work supported by
EU COST Action IC0803 RFCSET
http://www.cost-ic0803.org/
EU Marie Curie project
SWAP, FP7 251557
http://www.fp7-swap.eu/
http://fp7-swap.eu/
http://www.cost-ic0803.org/
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Questions?
Upcoming events:
IEEE MTT-S IMS2013, Seattle, June 2-7, 2013
Technical Area 32: RFID Technologies
Deadline for paper submission: 10 Dec 2012
www.ims2013.org
IEEE MTT-S Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC )
Perugia, 15-16 May 2013
Deadline for paper submission: 12 Jan 2013
www.ieee-wptc2013.unipg.it