Monday, August 1, 2011

Radio Energy Harvested With Inkjet-Printed Antenna

Posted by samzenpus  
from the catching-the-waves dept.
judgecorp writes"Everlasting green energy for RF tags and other low-power devices could be possible as scientists haveharvested energy from ambient radio waves using cheap antennas printed by an ordinary inkjet. The scientists, from Georgia Tech, started at 100MHz but have now produced systems which scavenge power at up to 60GHz, allowing them to draw power from most of today's major radio technologies."

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