Title :
Design and performance of micro-rectenna arrays for thermal energy harvesting
Author :
Yi Pan;Mark C. Rosamond;Andrew McDonald;Thomas Partridge;Doug Cartwright;Edmund H. Linfield;David Wood;Claudio Balocco
Author_Institution :
School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 2PN, UK
Abstract :
We report on the design and performance of a micro-rectenna device for harvesting wasted thermal energy. As an individual rectenna exhibits low efficiency and output power, we designed and studied a focal plane array (FPA) on a single semiconductor chip. Our FPA could be used for more general energy-harvesting applications as well as for THz imaging.
Keywords :
"Rectennas","Spirals","Semiconductor diodes","MODFETs","HEMTs","Antenna measurements"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327724
