Suspended patch microstrip antenna with cut rectangular slots for RF energy harvesting

Author

Krakauskas, Matas ; Sabaawi, Ahmed M. A. ; Tsimenidis, Charalampos C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

304

Lastpage

307

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential of suspended planar patch antenna with rectangular patch slots for transferring wireless energy by collecting electromagnetic waves from ambient microwave sources. The operating frequency is aimed to cover both the 3G mobile communication band of 2.11-2.17 GHz as well as WiFi band of 2.45 GHz, hence, the required bandwidth is approximately 15%. Simulation and measured results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed antenna and close agreement is found between simulations and the practical implementation.

Keywords

UHF antennas; energy harvesting; microstrip antennas; planar antennas; radiofrequency power transmission; slot antennas; 3G mobile communication band; RF energy harvesting; WiFi band; ambient microwave sources; cut rectangular patch slots; electromagnetic waves; frequency 2.11 GHz to 2.45 GHz; suspended patch microstrip antenna; suspended planar patch antenna; wireless energy; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Energy harvesting; Loss measurement; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Radio frequency; Microstrip antennas; energy harvesting; rectangular slots; suspended elements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996382

Filename

6996382