Affiliation:
1. College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Abstract
Present radio frequency (RF) rectifiers usually suffer from poor power conversion efficiency (PCE) at low-resistance loads, and the currently proposed DC-DC converter cannot solve this problem well. Aiming at this above problem, we propose a novel DC-DC converter for rectifiers, which consists of a Boost–Buck circuit and a Buck circuit cascaded together to maintain high PCE at both high and low load resistance; the converter can also operate over a wide range of input powers. The proposed converter, along with a 2.45 GHz rectifier, was fabricated to verify its performance. With the converter, the load range of the rectifier when the overall PCE is over 50% was extended from 250 Ω–1250 Ω to 5 Ω–3000 Ω. The highest overall PCE reached up to 61% and the overall PCE at a small load of 5 Ω increased from 1.1% to 54%. The proposed converter can be used in wireless power transmission (WPT).
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