Comparison of antennas for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting in 0.2–2.4 GHz range

Author

Mandal, Soumen ; Giri, Santu Kumar

Author_Institution

Central Mech. Eng. Res. Inst., Electron. & Instrum. Group, CSIR, Durgapur, India

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 April 2011

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Broadband Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting is a lucrative area of research nowadays. In this paper, we analyze various antennas for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting in terms of broadband gain, return loss and packing conformality. Use of hexagonal spiral antenna which can provide excellent broadband characteristics without putting any bound on packing conformality is particularly emphasized. Analysis is based on simulation of various antennas using Method of Moments in IE3D Software.

Keywords

UHF antennas; broadband antennas; energy harvesting; method of moments; spiral antennas; IE3D software; UHF antennas; broadband radiofrequency energy harvesting; frequency 0.2 GHz to 2.4 GHz; hexagonal spiral antenna; method of moments; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Energy harvesting; Spirals; hexagonal spiral; packing conformality; rectenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), 2011 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kanyakumari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8678-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8679-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECTECH.2011.5941567

Filename

5941567