A CMOS Rectifier Employing Body Biasing Scheme for RF Energy Harvesting

This paper presents a CMOS rectifier for RF energy harvesting. The structure of the proposed design is based on a modified cross-coupled architecture. It employs an adaptive body biasing technique to lower the transistor threshold voltage (V
_th
) when the PMOS is ON. This would increase the conduction current. Moreover, this technique increases V
_th
when the PMOS is OFF. This would minimize the current flowing in the reverse bias condition. The proposed design is simulated using 0.18 μm TSMC CMOS technology under various loading conditions and an input frequency of 953 MHz. A peak power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 78.2% is achieved at an input power of -27.5 dBm and a 100 kΩ load.