A triband short-circuited suspended solar patch antenna

Author

Yurduseven, Ozan ; Smith, D. ; Pearsall, N. ; Forbes, Ian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Eng. & Inf. Sci., Northumbria Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

297

Abstract

In this paper, a triband low-profile short-circuited suspended patch antenna combined with a polycrystalline silicon solar cell working as a radiating patch element is proposed for 2.3/2.5/2.8/3.3/3.5 GHz band WiMAX and 2.4 GHz band WLAN networks. The fabricated multifunctional solar antenna offers measured impedance bandwidths of 230, 130 and 280 MHz at the resonance frequencies of 2.4, 2.8 and 3.45 GHz with measured gains of 7.4, 7.8 and 7.6 dBi respectively. The proposed solar antenna generates a measured open circuit voltage of 0.595 V with a short circuit current of 602 mA as a result of the photovoltaic effect, operating with a calculated solar efficiency of 13.22% and providing a DC power output of 0.238 W.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; multifrequency antennas; photovoltaic effects; solar cells; wireless LAN; UHF antennas; WLAN networks; WiMAX; bandwidth 130 MHz; bandwidth 230 MHz; bandwidth 280 MHz; current 602 mA; frequency 2.3 GHz; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 2.45 GHz; frequency 2.5 GHz; frequency 2.8 GHz; frequency 3.3 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; microwave antennas; multifunctional solar antenna; photovoltaic effect; polycrystalline silicon solar cell; power 0.238 W; radiating patch element; solar efficiency; triband short-circuited suspended solar patch antenna; voltage 0.595 V; wireless LAN; Antenna measurements; Current measurement; Frequency measurement; Patch antennas; Photovoltaic cells; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory (ISAPE), 2012 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1799-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2012.6408767

Filename

6408767