Power harvesting from microwave oven electromagnetic leakage

Yoshihiro Kawahara; Xiaoying Bian; Ryo Shigeta; Rushi Vyas; Manos M. Tentzeris; Tohru Asami

doi:10.1145/2493432.2493500

Power harvesting from microwave oven electromagnetic leakage

Yoshihiro Kawahara
, Xiaoying Bian
, Ryo Shigeta
, Rushi Vyas
, Manos M. Tentzeris
, Tohru Asami

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

In this paper, we considered the possibility of using electricity harvested from the microwave field leaked from commercial microwave ovens. Our experimental results showed that the leakage received by a dipole antenna was about 0 dBm (1 mW) at a point 5 cm in front of the door. A rectenna consisting of a dipole antenna and charge pump can convert the leaked microwave energy into a DC current. When a microwave oven is operated for 2 min, 9.98 mJ of energy was harvested. We demonstrated that this energy is sufficient for powering a digital cooking timer to count down for 3 min and beep for 2.5 s. The operation of other kitchen devices was also demonstrated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Pages	373-381
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493500
Publication status	Published - 2013
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 8 Sept 2013 → 12 Sept 2013

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Conference	2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	8/09/13 → 12/09/13

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Energy harvesting
Microwave oven
Wireless sensing

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Kawahara, Y, Bian, X, Shigeta, R, Vyas, R, Tentzeris, MM & Asami, T 2013, Power harvesting from microwave oven electromagnetic leakage. in UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. pp. 373-381, 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013, Zurich, Switzerland, 8/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493500

Power harvesting from microwave oven electromagnetic leakage. / Kawahara, Yoshihiro; Bian, Xiaoying; Shigeta, Ryo et al.
UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. 2013. p. 373-381.

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