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Wearable e-textile wireless RF power supply based on a textile supercapacitor and a flexible rectenna filament

Wearable e-textile wireless RF power supply based on a textile supercapacitor and a flexible rectenna filament
Wearable e-textile wireless RF power supply based on a textile supercapacitor and a flexible rectenna filament
Sustainable battery-free operation is a requirement for wearable electronic textiles. This work presents a complete wearable textile-based radio frequency energy harvester and an energy storage module. The rectifying-antenna (rectenna) receives incident sub-1 GHz RF power from a license-free transmitter and converts it to DC with up to 90% efficiency and 8 V DC output from under 4 mW of RF power. A spray-coated in-house textile 7.1 mF supercapacitor is integrated as an energy storage unit. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy has been used to characterize the supercapacitor's impedance and a four-branch circuit model has been obtained. The 7.1 mF textile supercapacitor has been demonstrated charging to 1 V (3.55 mJ) in under 11 seconds at 1.2 m separation from a wireless power source, demonstrating over 15% end-to-end efficiency, the highest charging efficiency of a textile supercapacitor from an integrated flexible energy source.
Antenna, Wireless Power Transfer, Supercapacitor, RF Energy Harvesting, Rectenna, E-textiles
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Hillier, Nicholas
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Yong, Sheng
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Steve
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Wagih, Mahmoud
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Hillier, Nicholas
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Yong, Sheng
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Weddell, Alex S.
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Beeby, Steve
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Wagih, Mahmoud, Hillier, Nicholas, Yong, Sheng, Weddell, Alex S. and Beeby, Steve (2020) Wearable e-textile wireless RF power supply based on a textile supercapacitor and a flexible rectenna filament. IEEE FLEPS 2020: IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, , Manchester, United Kingdom. 16 - 19 Aug 2020. (In Press)

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Abstract

Sustainable battery-free operation is a requirement for wearable electronic textiles. This work presents a complete wearable textile-based radio frequency energy harvester and an energy storage module. The rectifying-antenna (rectenna) receives incident sub-1 GHz RF power from a license-free transmitter and converts it to DC with up to 90% efficiency and 8 V DC output from under 4 mW of RF power. A spray-coated in-house textile 7.1 mF supercapacitor is integrated as an energy storage unit. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy has been used to characterize the supercapacitor's impedance and a four-branch circuit model has been obtained. The 7.1 mF textile supercapacitor has been demonstrated charging to 1 V (3.55 mJ) in under 11 seconds at 1.2 m separation from a wireless power source, demonstrating over 15% end-to-end efficiency, the highest charging efficiency of a textile supercapacitor from an integrated flexible energy source.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2020
Venue - Dates: IEEE FLEPS 2020: IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, , Manchester, United Kingdom, 2020-08-16 - 2020-08-19
Keywords: Antenna, Wireless Power Transfer, Supercapacitor, RF Energy Harvesting, Rectenna, E-textiles

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Local EPrints ID: 441677
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441677
PURE UUID: c3e83b2b-2bfb-43aa-a92f-10eb43749d34
ORCID for Mahmoud Wagih: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7806-4333
ORCID for Nicholas Hillier: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3544-8329
ORCID for Sheng Yong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-5981
ORCID for Alex S. Weddell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-5460
ORCID for Steve Beeby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-1759

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Date deposited: 24 Jun 2020 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 05:39

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Author: Mahmoud Wagih ORCID iD
Author: Nicholas Hillier ORCID iD
Author: Sheng Yong ORCID iD
Author: Alex S. Weddell ORCID iD
Author: Steve Beeby ORCID iD

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