Stanford Seminar - Wireless Power Transfer and RF Energy Harvesting

This seminar talks about sensors and sensor systems and wireless power tools and reasons for using wireless power. Technologies discussed in this talk are: RFID Cryptography, WARP, WISP and Wireless Charging.

Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week.

Introduction.
Sensor Systems Lab Graduate Students.
Why Wireless Power?.
The space of wirelessly powered systems.
WISP & UHF RFID.
WISP Block Diagram.
Rectifying Charge Pump (1 stage).
Rectifier Efficiency.
Power Management Block.
RFID Cryptography.
Commercialization: Intel STAG.
Wirelessly powered bistable display.
Analog Backscatter.
Hybrid analog-digital backscatter audio sensing.
WARP: Wireless Ambient Radio Power.
WARP: Cell Tower Power.
Old and new harvester designs.
ABC Ambient Backscatter Communication.
Coupled resonators.
Range and orientation adaptation.
RF Health and Science.
Wireless USB Charging LED Message Fan.