A Solar Cell Stacked Multi-Slot Quad-Band PIFA for GSM, WLAN and WiMAX Networks

Author

Yurduseven, Ozan ; Smith, D.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

23

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Jun-13

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

287

Abstract

This letter presents a novel low-profile quad-bandsolar PIFA which has the potential to be employed in self-powered low-power GSM 1800, 2.4 GHz band WLAN and 2.3/3.3/5.8 GHz band WiMAX networks. The multi-slot loaded radiating PIFA element consisting of W-L shaped slots stacked with a polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) solar cell operating as a parasitic patch element enables the proposed solar PIFA to operate at the center frequency bands of 1.8, 2.4, 3.4, and 5.8 GHz with measured impedance bandwidths of 16.7%, 9.16%, 7.65%, and 3.45%, respectively. By incorporating a stacked poly-Si solar cell as a parasitic patch element an adequate solar efficiency of 14.5% can be achieved, generating a dc power output of 44 mW.

Keywords

UHF antennas; WiMax; antenna arrays; cellular radio; microstrip antennas; microwave antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; slot antennas; solar cells; wireless LAN; W-L shaped slots; WLAN; WiMAX networks; center frequency bands; dc power output; frequency 1.8 GHz; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 3.4 GHz; frequency 5.8 GHz; low-profile quad-bandsolar PIFA; multislot loaded radiating PIFA element; parasitic patch element; polycrystalline silicon solar cell; power 44 mW; self-powered low-power GSM 1800; solar PIFA; solar cell stacked multislot quad-band PIFA; solar efficiency; Multi-slot radiating element; planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA); quad-band antenna; solar antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2013.2258006

Filename

6508964