Title :
Performance Characteristics of the Thin-Film, Etched-Circuit Rectenna
fDate :
May 30 1984-June 1 1984
Abstract :
Measurement of DC power output, temperature rise of the rectifying diode as measured with the fluoroptic temperature probe, and efficiency have been made on the thin-film, etched-circuit rectenna foreplane as a function of incident microwave power and velocity of laminar air flow parallel to rectenna. When the rectenna is illuminated with 2.45 GHz microwave power, DC power output densities of 1 kw/M/sup 2/ and DC power to weight ratios of kw/kg have been obtained with air velocity of 10 ft/sec at sea level density and diode temperature rise of 100°C.
Keywords :
Diodes; Etching; Fluid flow measurement; Microwave measurements; Ocean temperature; Power measurement; Rectennas; Sea measurements; Transistors; Velocity measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 1984 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.1984.1131793
