{"id":104481,"date":"2020-03-30T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/energy-harvesting-design-aims-to-turn-wi-fi-signals-into-usable-power"},"modified":"2020-03-30T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:34:42","slug":"energy-harvesting-design-aims-to-turn-wi-fi-signals-into-usable-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/energy-harvesting-design-aims-to-turn-wi-fi-signals-into-usable-power","title":{"rendered":"Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-harvesting-design-aims-to-turn-wi-fi-signals-into-usable-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves \u2014electromagnetic waves with a frequency somewhere between microwaves and infrared light. These high-frequency radiation waves, known as \u201cT-rays,\u201d are also produced by almost anything that registers a temperature, including our own bodies and the inanimate objects around us.<\/p>\n<p>Terahertz waves are pervasive in our daily lives, and if harnessed, their concentrated power could potentially serve as an alternate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> source. Imagine, for instance, a cellphone add-on that passively soaks up ambient T-rays and uses their energy to charge your phone. However, to date, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz<\/a> waves are wasted energy, as there has been no practical way to capture and convert them into any usable form.<\/p>\n<p>Now physicists at MIT have come up with a blueprint for a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> they believe would be able to convert ambient terahertz waves into a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/direct+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">direct current<\/a>, a form of electricity that powers many household electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves \u2014electromagnetic waves with a frequency somewhere between microwaves and infrared light. These high-frequency radiation waves, known as \u201cT-rays,\u201d are also produced by almost anything that registers a temperature, including our own bodies and the inanimate objects around us. Terahertz waves are pervasive in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}