Batteryless Radio and Ambient Powered Receivers: Semiconductor Physics and Crystal Semiconductor Engineering
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Can useful information be extracted from an electromagnetic wave without any external power supply? This question, first answered by the crystal detector more than a century ago, now underpins passive RFID tags, ambient RF energy harvesters, and battery-free sensor networks.
Batteryless Radio and Ambient-Powered Receivers traces the continuous engineering thread from Maxwell’s equations through Hertz, Branly, Bose, Pickard, Armstrong and Hollmann to the quantitative design of modern ambient-powered systems. Written as a graduate-level reference, the book unites rigorous historical analysis with practical receiver architectures, energy-flow methods, and the physical limits that still govern today’s batteryless devices.
Readers will gain:
- A coherent narrative linking nineteenth-century semiconductor detection to contemporary zero-bias Schottky and RF-harvesting circuits
- Engineering tools for antenna aperture, impedance matching, detector efficiency and energy storage under microwatt budgets
- A detailed examination of Hollmann’s pioneering free-powered transistor receivers and their relevance to simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)
- Design principles that remain valid for passive tags, energy-autonomous sensors and low-power IoT deployments worldwide
Ideal for RF engineers, graduate students in electronics and telecommunications, and researchers working on energy-autonomous systems, this volume provides both a solid historical foundation and a working reference for the next generation of batteryless receivers.
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About the author
Rahul Basu works in the field of semiconductor physics, altyernative and free energy,and materials engineering, with a particular focus on ambient-powered and batteryless electronic systems. His research and writing explore the historical development and modern design of passive RF receivers, from early crystal detectors to contemporary energy-harvesting architectures.
In Batteryless Radio and Ambient-Powered Receivers, he brings together the scientific foundations laid by Maxwell, Hertz, Bose, Pickard, Armstrong and Hollmann with practical engineering methods for today’s RF energy harvesters, passive RFID tags and battery-free sensor nodes. The book is intended as a graduate-level reference for students, researchers and practising engineers working at the intersection of semiconductor devices, radio engineering and energy-autonomous systems.
