Broadband Bent Triangular Omnidirectional Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting

Abstract

In this letter, a broadband bent triangular omnidirectional antenna is presented for RF energy harvesting. The antenna has a bandwidth for ${\hbox {VSWR}}\leq2$ from 850 MHz to 1.94 GHz. The antenna is designed to receive both horizontal and vertical polarized waves and has a stable radiation pattern over the entire bandwidth. Antenna has also been optimized for energy harvesting application and it is designed for $100~\Omega $ input impedance to provide a passive voltage amplification and impedance matching to the rectifier. A peak efficiency of 60% and 17% is obtained for a load of $500~\Omega $ at 980 and 1800 MHz, respectively. At a cell site while harvesting all bands simultaneously a voltage of 3.76 V for open circuit and 1.38 V across a load of $4.3~\hbox{k} \Omega $ is obtained at a distance of 25 m using an array of two elements of the rectenna.