RF Energy Harvesting circuits simulation in KiCad
The development of mobile networks made it possible to move to the next level of data transfer speeds. The potential of radio waves as an energy source is still waiting to be exploited. Recent developments in high-frequency electronics temptates to come back to Nikola Tesla’s idea of wireless energy transfer.
Research in this area is difficult as it requires operating in centimeter wavelenghts, however, some progress in this matter is noticeable. Simulation comes with enormous help in designing of harvesters circuits, especially with shortening time in receiving results of experiments, which leads to lowering costs and speeding up the design process. There were some simulation environments levereged in the research: Simscape Electrical, LT Spice and last but not least KiCad.
During this talk a way to simulate RFEHs in KiCad will be presented, parameters defining circuits performance will be discussed and results to other SPICE simulators will be compared.
