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Main Authors: Che, Dan, Liu, Changjun, He, Haoming, Ren, Zhi Hua, Wu, Pengde
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12087
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author Che, Dan
Liu, Changjun
He, Haoming
Ren, Zhi Hua
Wu, Pengde
author_facet Che, Dan
Liu, Changjun
He, Haoming
Ren, Zhi Hua
Wu, Pengde
contents In this brief, a novel harmonic-backscatter-rectifier (HBR) is introduced for simultaneous rectification and harmonic-based uplink. The proposed (HBR) employs a rectifier to generate both DC power and the harmonic carriers for backscattering communication, and a dual-band reconfigurable band-stop filter using defected ground structure(DGS) to modulate the second and third harmonics with low-power consumption and same input impedance at f0 all the time. As a proof of concept, an HBR prototype operating at 1.85 GHz was designed and experimented. An uplink data rate of 8Mbps (4Mbps x 2 ) was achieved when the HBR was fed with -10 dBm RF power, and the data modulation consumed less than 27.7pJ/bit. In addition, a passive harmonic tag was implemented with the proposed HBR and a low-power binary sequence generator, which demonstrated a continuous uplink of 12 kbps at -6 dBm RF power.
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spellingShingle Second- and Third-Harmonic Backscatter Through a Bandstop Filter Using Defected Ground Structure
Che, Dan
Liu, Changjun
He, Haoming
Ren, Zhi Hua
Wu, Pengde
Applied Physics
In this brief, a novel harmonic-backscatter-rectifier (HBR) is introduced for simultaneous rectification and harmonic-based uplink. The proposed (HBR) employs a rectifier to generate both DC power and the harmonic carriers for backscattering communication, and a dual-band reconfigurable band-stop filter using defected ground structure(DGS) to modulate the second and third harmonics with low-power consumption and same input impedance at f0 all the time. As a proof of concept, an HBR prototype operating at 1.85 GHz was designed and experimented. An uplink data rate of 8Mbps (4Mbps x 2 ) was achieved when the HBR was fed with -10 dBm RF power, and the data modulation consumed less than 27.7pJ/bit. In addition, a passive harmonic tag was implemented with the proposed HBR and a low-power binary sequence generator, which demonstrated a continuous uplink of 12 kbps at -6 dBm RF power.
title Second- and Third-Harmonic Backscatter Through a Bandstop Filter Using Defected Ground Structure
topic Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12087