Wireless Without Batteries

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, 2^nd 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.
Reading:  MSF02, 04, 06 Youtube Videos

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