A broadband efficient rectenna array for wireless energy harvesting

Chaoyun Song; Yi Huang; Jiafeng Zhou; Sheng Yuan; Qian Xu; Paul Carter

A broadband efficient rectenna array for wireless energy harvesting

Chaoyun Song, Yi Huang, Jiafeng Zhou, Sheng Yuan, Qian Xu, Paul Carter

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

This paper presents an efficient rectenna array to harvest ambient wireless energy over a broad bandwidth. An RF field measurement campaign has been undertaken at various locations in the city centre area of Liverpool. The results have been used to identify the available frequency bands and the corresponding power density levels. Thus a new wideband rectenna array has been designed and optimized to match with the ambient signals. Both the simulated and test results show that the rectenna array is highly efficient with 20 - 70% conversion efficiency over the broad band and signal levels of interest. The measured output power in reality is higher than the other published results in such as [5]-[8] with a similar input power level.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2015
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9788890701856
Publication status	Published - 31 Aug 2015
Event	9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 13 May 2015 → 17 May 2015

Conference

Conference	9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2015
Abbreviated title	EuCAP 2015
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	13/05/15 → 17/05/15

Keywords

energy harvesting
field measurement
Rectenna array

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Instrumentation
Radiation
Computer Networks and Communications

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