A Novel Ultra-Lightweight Multiband Rectenna on Paper for RF Energy Harvesting in the Next Generation LTE Bands

Valentina Palazzi; Jimmy Hester; Jo Bito; Federico Alimenti; Christos Kalialakis; Ana Collado; Paolo Mezzanotte; Apostolos Georgiadis; Luca Roselli; Manos M. Tentzeris

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2017.2721399

A Novel Ultra-Lightweight Multiband Rectenna on Paper for RF Energy Harvesting in the Next Generation LTE Bands

Valentina Palazzi
, Jimmy Hester
, Jo Bito
, Federico Alimenti
, Christos Kalialakis
, Ana Collado
, Paolo Mezzanotte
, Apostolos Georgiadis
, Luca Roselli
, Manos M. Tentzeris

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This paper introduces a novel compact ultralightweight multiband RF energy harvester fabricated on a paper substrate. The proposed rectenna is designed to operate in all recently released LTE bands (range 0.79-0.96 GHz; 1.71-2.17 GHz; and 2.5-2.69 GHz). High compactness and ease of integration between antenna and rectifier are achieved by using a topology of nested annular slots. The proposed rectifier features an RF-to-dc conversion efficiency in the range of 5%-16% for an available input power of -20 dBm in all bands of interest, which increases up to 11%-30% at -15 dBm. The rectenna has been finally tested both in laboratory and in realistic scenarios featuring a superior performance to other state-of-the-art RF harvesters on flexible substrates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	366-379
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume	66
Issue number	1
Early online date	20 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2017.2721399
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018

Keywords

Broadband antennas
conformal antennas
Copper
copper adhesive laminate
energy harvesting
flexible electronics
Internet of Everything
Internet of Things (IoT)
multiband rectifier
Radio frequency
Rectennas
rectennas
Slot antennas
slot antennas
Substrates

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiation
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Palazzi, V., Hester, J., Bito, J., Alimenti, F., Kalialakis, C., Collado, A., Mezzanotte, P., Georgiadis, A., Roselli, L., & Tentzeris, M. M. (2018). A Novel Ultra-Lightweight Multiband Rectenna on Paper for RF Energy Harvesting in the Next Generation LTE Bands. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 66(1), 366-379. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2017.2721399

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