ENERGY HARVESTING FROM RADIO WAVES

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INTRODUCTION

NECESSITY IS MOTHER OF INVENTION

ENERGY CRISIS NECESSITATED THE INVENTION OF ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES


We are being bombarded with energy waves every second of the day.

What if there was a way we could harvest the energy that is being transmitted and use it as a source of power?

If it could be possible to gather the energy and store it, we could potentially use it to power other circuits


DESIGN

The circuit in its fundamental design consists of

TRANSMITTER

CHARGE PUMP

TRANSMITTER:

The most basic transmitter setup consists of a piece of equipment that generates a signal whose output is then fed into an amplifier

The output power of this device is limited. For this reason, an amplifier is required on the output


CHARGE PUMP:

A charge pump is a circuit that when given an input in AC is able to output a DC voltage typically larger than a simple rectifier would generate.

The charge pump circuit is made of stages of voltage doublers.


THE CUTTING EDGE:


The most interesting feature of this circuit is that by connecting these stages in series, we can essentially stack them, like stacking batteries to get more voltage at the output.