Optimal Waveforms for Efficient Wireless Power Transmission

This work shows how using specifically selected or designed waveforms in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems can lead to improved RF to dc conversion efficiency in rectifier circuits in the receiving end of these systems. Signals with different time domain waveforms are considered such as OFDM, white noise and chaotic waveforms, and the performance of a rectifier circuit operating at 433 MHz is evaluated when using these signals in comparison to a single carrier constant envelope signal. The performed experiments show that selecting high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) signals lead to improved RF-DC conversion efficiency in rectifier circuits.Grant numbers : This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER funds through the project TEC2012-39143, and by the COST Action IC1301.© 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works