Abstract
In this letter, a self-packaged substrate-integrated suspended line (SISL) rectifier is proposed. The rectifier consists of a quarter-wavelength high-impedance transmission line, a diode, a tuning inductor, and a dc pass filter. The lower the power is, the lower the rectifying efficiency is. At a low input power level, the diode impedance real part is almost zero. A tuning inductor is introduced to form a parallel resonator to enhance the diode voltage. A quarter-wavelength high-impedance line is presented to match the rectifying diode to the source. In addition, due to the self-packaging characteristics and air cavity of SISLs, the radiation loss and dielectric loss of the proposed rectifier are reduced. A rectifier was designed, fabricated, and measured at 5.8 GHz. The radio frequency (RF)-dc conversion efficiency reaches 3.5% at −30 dBm, which is close to its theoretical estimated efficiency at 5.8 GHz. This ultralow power rectifier may be used in energy harvesting at <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -band.
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