Converting the radio transmissions in the air into power. All wireless signals comprise energy and data, the latter derived by the way the radio waves are modulated. Wireless energy harvesting (WEH) ...

A team from Georgia Tech has just announced a world-first: a 3D-printed rectifying antenna the size of a playing card that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals and use it to power ...

Will electric vehicles someday be charged as they roll down the highway? Dynamic wireless charging—charging a vehicle as it travels down a specially-equipped road—is still in the research stage, but ...

Wireless power has the potential to be very useful, but range is a major hurdle. In a new proof-of-concept project, Ericsson and PowerLight Technologies have demonstrated a technique called optical ...

The DARPA Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a ...

Nikola Tesla envisioned supplying power to the world without the need for a tangle of wires strung everywhere. The closest he ever came to realizing wireless transmission was the Tesla coil, which he ...

Currently, drones run out of power after days, hour or minutes. If there was wireless power beaming then electrically powered drones could stay flying over a battlefield indefinitely. Years of flight ...

College Park, MD (November 6, 2006) -- Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now ...

For decades, space-based solar power sounded like science fiction. Now, lightweight, flexible satellites designed to assemble ...

Time and again modern wars have proven you can't really fight battles without having access to energy. Whereas until the advent of the last century all armies had to worry about was food, shelter, and ...