A Generic Receiver Architecture for MIMO Wireless Power Transfer With Nonlinear Energy Harvesting

摘要： This letter investigates a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer system under practical nonliner energy harvesting (EH) models. We propose a new generic energy receiver (ER) architecture consisting of N receive antennas and L recti?ers, for which one power splitter is inserted after each antenna to adaptively split the received radio frequency (RF) signals among the L recti?ers for ef?cient nonlinear RF-to-direct current (dc) conversion. With the proposed architecture, we maximize the total harvested dc power at the ER, by jointly optimizing the transmit energy beamforming at the energy transmitter and the power splitting ratios at the ER. Numerical results show that our proposed design by exploiting the nonlinearity of EH signi?cantly improves the harvested dc power at the ER, as compared to two conventional designs.