Title of thesis: RESONANT CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY FOR RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING Negin Shahshahan, Master of Science, 2012 Directed by: Professor Neil Goldsman Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering In this work the operation of a MOSFET based rectifier, composed of multiple stages of voltage doubler circuits used for radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting, is investigated. Analytica...

In this chapter the analytical model of a wireless power transfer scheme is developed through the means of Coupled Mode Theory (CMT). The derivation is made under the assumption of low internal coil losses and some particular type of resonator (coil inductance and capacitance) equivalent circuit. With the equivalent circuit modeling the wireless power transfer system the direct high frequency p...

The electric currents induced by infrared radiation incident on optical antennas and resonant structures increase their temperature through Joule heating as well as change their electric resistance through the bolometric effect. As the thermo-electric mechanism exists throughout a distributed bolometer, a multiphysics approach was adopted to analyze thermal, electrical, and electromagnetic effe...

A piezoelectric bimorph beam, as an upgraded cantilever beam structure, can be used to detect gas content and build a micro-actuator, among other functions. Thus, this beam is widely applied to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), transformers, and precision machinery. For example, when photoacoustic spectroscopy is performed to detect oil-soluble gas in transformers, a micro-cantilever beam ...

Recent research in wireless power transfer (WPT) using resonant inductive coupling has demonstrated very high efficiencies (above 40%) at large distances compared to the antenna dimensions, which has exponentially increased the number of potential applications of WPT. Since resonant inductive coupling is a very multidisciplinary field, different approaches have been proposed to predict the beha...

In this paper, a new soft switching three phase inverter with a quasi-resonant dc-link is presented. The proposed inverter has a dc-link switch and an auxiliary switch. The inverter switches are turned on and off under zero voltage switching condition and all auxiliary circuit switches and diodes are also soft switched. The control utilizes PWM and the auxiliary switch does not require an isola...