Abstract
This article proposes a novel hybrid energy harvesting antenna that can be used to harvest radio frequency (RF) and vibration energy in ambience. A microstrip antenna is designed on the piezoelectric film with the material of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). Due to the high dielectric constant of PVDF, the antenna size can be reduced efficiently. The shape of designed microstrip antenna is trapezoidal, the final antenna size is reduced to 50 mm × 30 mm × 0.2 mm. To improve the efficiency, the rectifier with matching network is optimized and the modes of the piezoelectric film are analyzed. The experimental results show that the frequency bandwidth of the antenna is 2.1 to 2.5 GHz. For a RF source at distance of 1 m away, with a 0.25 W EIRP 2.4 GHz transmitter, the output power of the antenna can reach 17.2 μW. While under 17 Hz vibration excitation, the output voltage and power can reach 1.44 V and 15.3 μW, respectively.
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