One Octave Bandwidth Rectifier With a Frequency Selective Diode Array

Abstract

In this paper, a high-efficiency rectifier with one octave bandwidth is proposed by proposing a diode array with a frequency selective topology. With the frequency selective topology, the low-and high-band rectifiers are combined together without extra matching circuit at the input leading to a high-efficiency broadband design. For validation, a prototype rectifier was fabricated and characterized. The measured results show that the RF-dc power conversion efficiency (PCE) maintains above 70% from 1.75 to 3.55 GHz at an input power of 10 dBm. The measured PCE remains more than 50% within 1.4-3.7 GHz and the |S <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">11</sub> | is lower than -10 dB from 1.7 to 3.6 GHz.