scholarly journals The RF Energy Harvesting Antennas Operating in Commercially Deployed Frequency Bands: A Comparative Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mrnka ◽  
P. Vasina ◽  
M. Kufa ◽  
V. Hebelka ◽  
Z. Raida
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Reflection Coefficient ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Dielectric Resonator ◽  
Wireless Systems ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Slot Antenna ◽  
Dielectric Resonator Antenna ◽  
Rf Energy

This paper deals with suitable antennas for energy harvesting, which is a growing research field due to the utilization of nowadays ubiquitous and abundant RF energy. Four types of basic antenna structures suitable for harvesting applications, namely, the patch antenna, slot antenna, modified inverted F antenna, and dielectric resonator antenna, are compared from the viewpoint of reflection coefficient, efficiency, radiation patterns, and dimensions. The frequencies of interest were chosen so that they cover several main wireless systems operating between 0.8 GHz and 2.6 GHz, that is, GSM, UMTS, and WiFi.

A dual-band rectenna using broadband DRA loaded with slot

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin Agrawal ◽  
Manoj Singh Parihar ◽  
Pravin N. Kondekar
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Dielectric Resonator ◽  
Electromagnetic Coupling ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Dielectric Resonator Antenna ◽  
Load Impedance ◽  
Rf Energy Harvesting ◽  
Rectangular Slot ◽  
Rf Energy

This paper presents a broadband hybrid slot-dielectric resonator antenna for radiofrequency (RF) energy-harvesting application. The antenna geometry consists of a simple pentagon-shaped dielectric resonator antenna (PDRA) excited by a microstrip feed underlying rectangular slot with narrow notch. It is investigated that the bandwidth of the proposed PDRA is improved significantly owing to electromagnetic coupling between feeding slot and the dielectric resonator. The measured results demonstrate that the proposed PDRA achieves an impedance bandwidth of 110.8%, covering the frequency range from 0.86 to 3 GHz in addition of stable radiation pattern with peak gain of 6.8 dBi and more than 90% radiation efficiency throughout the band, showing its suitability for RF energy harvesting application. For this to be feasible, the developed antenna is matched with the rectifier at two public telecommunication bands of GSM-900 and GSM-1800 using a compact dual-band hybrid matching network. The measured result demonstrates that the proposed dual-band rectenna system provides the peak efficiency of 63 and 59% for a load impedance of 4.7 kΩ at 0.9 and 1.8 GHz, respectively.

scholarly journals Dielectric Resonator Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4834-4839
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Dielectric Resonator ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Dielectric Resonator Antenna ◽  
Rf Energy Harvesting ◽  
Dc Power ◽  
Energy Harvesting System ◽  
Rf Energy ◽  
Dc Current

Recently, the various methods for RF energy harvesting and reutilizing has become the challenging matter around the world to minimize the wastage of RF energy in the form of electromagnetic waves within the atmosphere. An associate approach of collecting a particular range of frequencies & conversion into dc current- Rectenna is proposed here. Star shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna is implemented as antenna for receiving RF energy at 2.44 GHz resonant frequency. It is observed that Star shaped DRA exhibits a radiated power of 0.8825 W with respect to 1W incident power and maximum gain of 5.9672 dBi. The RF power received by Antenna is given to a Rectifier circuit via proper impedance matching circuit. The rectified pulsating DC power is given to capacitor filter to suppress harmonics .

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