A wideband cross dipole rectenna for rf wireless harvesting

Author

Jingwei Zhang ; Yi Huang ; Ping Cao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

3063

Lastpage

3067

Abstract

A new wideband cross dipole rectenna is investigated with the aid of an electromagnetic simulation package. The proposed device consists of a cross dipole antenna, low pass filter (LPF) and doubling rectifier circuit using Shottcky diodes as rectifying elements. It works over the frequency range from 1.7 to 3 GHz with the reflection coefficient less than -10 dB. Moreover, the proposed rectenna is able to convert the RF energy into DC energy with a good conversion efficiency of up to 75%.

Keywords

Schottky diodes; UHF diodes; UHF filters; broadband antennas; dipole antennas; low-pass filters; microwave diodes; microwave filters; rectennas; rectifiers; DC energy conversion; LPF; RF energy conversion; RF wireless harvesting; Schottky diode; doubling rectifier circuit; electromagnetic simulation package; frequency 1.7 GHz to 3 GHz; low pass filter; rectification element; reflection coefficient; wideband cross dipole rectenna; Density measurement; Dipole antennas; Power system measurements; Rectennas; Rectifiers; Schottky diodes; cross dipole; rectenna conversion efficiency; wideband rectenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546870