Below is the summary of the now-complete Wireless Without Batteries lectures series that was placed on the YouTube channel. The playlist for the entire lecture series may be found here.
01: Introduction; Computation and Power Trends Paper: J.G. Koomey, S. Berard, M. Sanchez, H. Wong. “Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Jul-Aug 2011. pp 46-54. Reading: WWB Introductory Notes on Power and Computation |
02: Antennas in Circuits for Energy Harvesting Paper: C.R. Valenta, G.D. Durgin. “Survey of Energy-harvester Conversion Efficiency in Far-field, Wireless Power Transfer Systems.” IEEE Microwave Magazine. vol 14, no 4, June 2014. 10 pages. Reading: WWB Notes on Antennas in Circuits |
03: Various Forms of Link Budgets Paper: P.V. Nikitin and K.V.S. Rao, “Antennas and Propagation in UHF RFID Systems.” IEEE International Conference on RFID, Las Vegas, NV. April 2008. 12 pages. Reading: T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, 2nd ed, Ch 4, 2003 |
04: Exotic Devices and Limits of RF Harvesting Paper: S. Hemour and K. Wu, “Radio-Frequency Rectifier for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting: Development Path and Future Outlook,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 102, no. 11, pp. 1667–1691, Nov 2014. |
05: Power-Optimized Waveforms Paper: M.S. Trotter, J.D. Griffin, and G.D. Durgin. “Power-Optimized Waveforms for Improving the Range and Reliability of RFID Systems.” IEEE International Conference on RFID 09, Orlando, FL. April 2009. 8 pages. |
06: Thermoelectric Devices Paper: D. Nemir and J. Beck, “On the Significance of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Z,” Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1897–1901, 2010. |
07: RF Thermoelectric Conversion Paper: G.D. Durgin. “RF Thermoelectric Generation for Passive RFID,” IEEE RFID 2016, Orlando, FL. 5 May 2016. 8 pages. |
08: H-field Modeling around Loops and Coils Paper: S.Y. Hui, “Planar Wireless Charging Technology for Portable Electronic Products and Qi,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 101, no 6, June 2013. |
09: Inductive Power Transfer and Over-coupled Systems Paper: A.P. Sample, D.A. Meyer, J.R. Smith, “Analysis, Experimental Results, and Range Adaptation of Magnetically Coupled Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 58, no 2, Feb 2011. |
10: Inductive Transfer of Information and NFC Communications Paper: J. Fischer, “NFC in Cell Phones: The New Paradigm for an Interactive World.” IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2009. |
11: Modulated Backscatter Paper: J.D. Griffin, G.D. Durgin. “Complete Link Budgets for RFID and Backscatter Radio.” IEEE Antennas and Propagation and Magazine, April 2009. 10 pages. |
12: Multi-Antenna Signaling Paper: J.D. Griffin, G.D. Durgin. “Multipath Fading Measurements at 5.8 GHz for Backscatter Tags With Multiple Antennas.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 58, no 11, Nov 2010. |
13: Retrodirectivity Paper: C.R. Valenta, B. Marshall, M.S. Trotter, G.A. Koo, G.D. Durgin “Staggered Pattern Charge Collection and Retrodirective Active Phase Modulation: Two New Passive Sensing Technologies.” IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL. April 2012. |
14: Reflection Amplification Paper: F. Amato, C.W. Peterson, B.P. Degnan, M.B. Akbar, G.D. Durgin. “Long Range and Low-Powered RFID tags with Tunnel Diode”. IEEE RFID-TA 2015. Tokyo, Japan. 16-18 September 2015. |
15: Backscatter Demodulation Paper: G.D. Durgin, C.R. Valenta, M.B. Akbar, M.M. Morys, B.R. Marshall, Y. Lu. “Modulation and Sensitivity Limits for Backscatter Receivers.” IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando, FL. May 2013. |
16: Balance Coding Paper: G.D. Durgin. “Balanced Codes for More Throughput in RFID and Backscatter Links”. IEEE RFID-TA 2015. Tokyo, Japan. 16-18 September 2015. |
17: RF SAW Devices Paper: Victor P. Plessky and Leonhard M. Reindl, “Review on SAW RFID Tags”, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 57, no. 3, March 2010. |
18: Magnetic Materials and Electronic Article Surveillance Paper: N/A |
19: RF Tomography and Sensing Paper: N/A |