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9 November 2016 Nonlinear metamaterials for electromagnetic energy harvesting (Conference Presentation)
Gabin Thibaut Oumbe Tekam, Vincent Ginis, Divitha Seetharamdoo, Jan Danckaert
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Proceedings Volume 9920, Active Photonic Materials VIII; 992009 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237948
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
Surrounded by electromagnetic radiation coming from wireless power transfer to consumer devices such as mobile phones, computers and television, our society is facing the scientific and technological challenge to recover energy that is otherwise lost to the environment. Energy harvesting is an emerging field of research focused on this largely unsolved problem, especially in the microwave regime. Metamaterials provide a very promising platform to meet this purpose. These artificial materials are made from subwavelength building blocks, and can be designed by resonate at particular frequencies, depending on their shape, geometry, size, and orientation. In this work, we show that an efficient electromagnetic energy harvester can be design by inserting a nonlinear element directly within the metamaterial unit cell, leading to the conversion of RF input power to DC charge accumulation. The electromagnetic energy harvester operating at microwave frequencies is built from a cut-wire metasurface, which operates as a quasistatic electric dipole resonator. Using the equivalent electrical circuit, we design the parameters to tune the resonance frequency of the harvester at the desired frequency, and we compare these results with numerical simulations. Finally, we discuss the efficiency of our metamaterial energy harvesters. This work potentially offers a variety of applications, for example in the telecommunications industry to charge phones, in robotics to power microrobots, and also in medicine to advance pacemakers or health monitoring sensors.
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Gabin Thibaut Oumbe Tekam, Vincent Ginis, Divitha Seetharamdoo, and Jan Danckaert "Nonlinear metamaterials for electromagnetic energy harvesting (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9920, Active Photonic Materials VIII, 992009 (9 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237948
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KEYWORDS
Electromagnetism
Energy harvesting
Metamaterials
Microwave radiation
Nonlinear metamaterials
Cell phones
Computing systems
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