Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting

Prof. Mohamed Latrach

(Prof. Mohamed Latrach, ESEO Angers, France)

This talk will be about Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting. Indeed, the Energy Harvesting is an increasingly used technology for both terrestrial and spatial applications, such as a clean electric energy, implantable medical devices, wireless sensor networks, traffic control systems, RFID, etc. There are a various forms of surrounding renewable energy which can be harvested, like electromagnetic waves, solar, wind, acoustic, thermal and mechanical.
After a short reminder of renewable energy sources and micro-sources, the RECTENNAS (RECTifier antENNAS) characteristics, the various achievements done until now and the challenge of Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting (EEH) will be discussed. The practical EEH limitations and the possible solutions will be also analyzed.
Index Terms– Rectennas, Energy harvesting, Rectifiers, Renewable energy, Antenna, Schottky diodes

Biography:

Mohamed Latrach (IEEE member) received the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Limoges, Limoges, France, in 1990. He is currently Professor of microwave engineering with the Ecole Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest (ESEO), Angers, France, where he is head of the Radio-Frequency & Microwave research group. His research interests include: design of hybrid & monolithic active and passive microwave circuits, metamaterials, LH materials, antennas, rectennas and their applications in wireless communications, and wireless power transmission (WPT).
Mohamed LATRACH has supervised several Ph.D students, postdoctoral students and master/engineer students, with many publications in national and international conferences and journals. He has been involved in several projects. For example, he is currently the leader for ESEO of the SPINNAKER project, which is an important collaborative project between academic and industrial partners, which deals with the design of new antennas structures for RFID systems. He has also filed 2 patents, on antennas structures involving metamaterials, in France.