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2022-10-16
Printed Fractal Folded Coplanar-Strips-Fed Array Rectenna for IoE Applications
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 125, 161-177, 2022
Abstract
This paper presents a low-cost antenna integrable to a large set of indoor common building materials. Employing the printing technology on thin transparent polyethylene terephthalate material and using available building materials not only leads to a low-cost environmentally friendly solution for the expected massive sensor deployment but also eliminates the dispersive behavior of the materials that are interacting with them. A coplanar-strips fed fractal folded antenna element was designed and validated experimentally with four different materials including gypsum, plywood, and plexiglass. The aesthetically viable ground-free antenna achieves wideband performance and radiates in the broadside plane perpendicularly to the wall. The single antenna element covers the frequency band of 2.18-3.96 GHz with a gain of 1 dBi at 2.4 GHz. To take advantage of the large available surface, a high efficiency 2.4 GHz array rectenna for powering electronic devices intended for IoE technology is proposed. The proposed array rectenna has a dimension of 384×354×6.475 mm3 and employs a single diode as the rectifier element. The measured results for the presented array rectenna reveal an AC-DC power-conversion-efficiency (PCE) of more than 20% for input powers as low as 0.025 μW/cm2 with a peak PCE of 61.3% at 4.03 μW/cm2.
Citation
Zahra Badamchi, Ngoc Duc Trinh, Chloe Bois, and Tarek Djerafi, "Printed Fractal Folded Coplanar-Strips-Fed Array Rectenna for IoE Applications," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 125, 161-177, 2022.
doi:10.2528/PIERC22080606
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