A harmonically-terminated two-gram low-power rectenna on a flexible substrate

Author

Korhummel, S. ; Kuester, Daniel G. ; Popovic, Zoya

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Energy Eng., Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

15-16 May 2013

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

A 900 MHz low-cost flexible omni-directional rectenna with a mass of 2.1 grams is demonstrated. A rectenna as demonstrated here employs only a Schottky diode, a capacitor, and a printed coplanar circuit which presents class-F harmonic terminations to the diode, resulting in approximately 48.6% efficiency at a low 8 μW/cm2 incident power density. The rectenna is printed on 0.13 mm PET with a commercial printing process depositing 1 μm-thick conductive traces.

Keywords

Schottky diodes; UHF antennas; capacitors; flexible electronics; low-power electronics; omnidirectional antennas; printed circuits; printing; rectennas; PET; Schottky diode; capacitor; class-F harmonic terminations; commercial printing process; conductive traces; flexible substrate; frequency 900 MHz; harmonically-terminated two-gram low-power rectenna; low-cost flexible omnidirectional rectenna; mass 2.1 g; power density; printed coplanar circuit; size 0.13 mm; size 1 mum; Harmonic analysis; Impedance; Microwave circuits; Rectennas; Schottky diodes; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Perugia

Print_ISBN

978--14673-5008-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPT.2013.6556897

Filename

6556897