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**4. Conclusion**

*(a) Fabricated charger circuit (b) Circuit test.*

**Figure 18.**

A novel approach for RF energy harvesting is presented in this chapter. Unlike previous works, we exploit spectrum sensing as a pre-processing procedure to find the frequency in which the maximum power more than a predefined threshold exists. After that, using a filter, this signal with maximum power is fed to a charger circuit. In simulation, a DC output voltage of 8.8 V is obtained using input RF power of 0 dbm. In practice and as our experimental results, our fabricated charger

circuit test led to 450*μ* W output power for battery charging.

Naser Ahmadi Moghaddam1 \* and Alireza Maleki2

1 Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

\*Address all correspondence to: n.moghaddam1990@gmail.com

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