Antenna For Energy Harvesting Research Articles

A dual ultra-wideband rectenna with a compact conical antenna for RF energy harvesting from S and C bands

The current research introduces a novel dual ultra-wideband rectenna that has been specifically devised for the S and C bands. The rectenna configuration being presented demonstrates the potential to efficiently capture energy from 1.5 GHz to 4.65 GHz, and 5.55 GHz–7.85 GHz. It is noteworthy to mention that the bandwidths (BW) corresponding to these frequency ranges are 3.15 GHz and 2.3 GHz, correspondingly. The envisioned rectenna is designed to cater to a selection of five distinct commercial bands. The frequencies under consideration include 1.8 GHz, UTMS 2.1 GHz, 5G 3.5 GHz, 4.5 GHz, and 5.8 GHz, which fall within the mid band range for 5G technology. Notably, the extended S-band and C band are also included within this range, catering specifically to 5G applications. For the purpose of rectification, a solitary HSMS 2850 Schottky diode has been selected. The maximum recorded Conversion Efficiency (CE) achieved at 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 4.5 GHz, and 5.8 GHz corresponds to CE values of 67 %, 65 %, 77 %, 71 %, and 71 %, respectively. These CE measurements were obtained under varying input power levels (IPL) of −6 dBm, 4 dBm, 4 dBm, 2 dBm, and 9 dBm, respectively. The rectenna under consideration is designed to operate across five distinct frequency bands. Notably, the CE exceeds 65 % across all of these frequency bands. Consequently, the rectenna exhibits a higher output power. As a result, this modification makes it appropriate for supplying energy to low-power electronic equipment.

C-Slot Circular Polarized Antenna for Hybrid Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensing

This paper presents a new hybrid energy harvesting on electromagnetic solar for wireless energy harvesting of ambient from sensors of low-power devices. The axial ratio (AR) requirements produce Left-Hand Circular Polarization (LHCP) and Right-Hand Circular Polarization (RHCP) and simultaneously produce a 90-degree phase difference during energy harvesting, adopting a new design in designing a dual-feed broadband circular polarized (CP) antenna. To get the frequency band 2.3–2.4 GHz, we propose a C-Slot antenna with a circular patch dual feed. To estimate the diversity of the phase and magnitude output of the feed configuration under AR value, we used a 50 Ohm feed network output of the characteristic analysis for a dual feed CP antenna. An Axial ratio frequency range of less than 3 dB is achieved using polarization analysis with different branch channel couplers. To produce a DC output voltage, a high-frequency rectifier circuit embedded with a thin-film solar cell on the antenna is then connected to two T-junction power divider rectifiers, resulting in a high-efficiency design. A complete system-level analysis will include multiple signal classification methods of powered ambient RF energy using a wireless energy harvesting array that proposes a compact structure and demonstrates optimal configuration. Reliable operation in typical indoor environments indicates a self-contained sensor Node. Therefore, it has significant implications for powering small electronics and wireless sensor applications independently of the IoT Network or real implementation telecommunications industry.

A programmable solar‐powered radio frequency transmitter

AbstractThis paper proposes a programmable solar‐powered radio frequency (RF) transmitter. It employs a novel five‐layer structure that effectively integrates solar cells, active circuits, and broadband antenna. This design can directly emit RF signals without the need for additional power supply, enabling efficient energy conversion and transmission. In addition, a U‐shaped coupling line model is introduced to evaluate the performance of the active circuit. We fabricated a sample and measured it. The results of the measurements indicate that the proposed RF transmitter can achieve self‐powering and programmable output at any frequency within the range of 2.08–4.1 GHz, with an output power of no less than 14 dBm. Moreover, the solar cells are placed on both sides of the circuits and antenna for energy harvesting, achieving 100% sunlight insolation with a 75.5% coverage ratio. This design can be used for self‐powered green wireless system applications.

Circularly polarized metasurface antenna based on characteristic mode analysis for microwave energy harvesting

AbstractIn this paper, a circularly polarized metasurface antenna for microwave energy harvesting (MEH) is proposed. First, a 4 × 4 metasurface is analyzed and integrated with the microstrip slot based on characteristic mode analysis for broadband, low profile, and high gain metasurface antenna. The measured results show that the impedance bandwidth of the metasurface antenna is 1.82 GHz, the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth is 0.96 GHz. Subsequently, a wideband rectifier for C‐band is fabricated and measured according complex impedance compression theory. The frequency of efficiency >50% is from 5.1 to 6.3 GHz with 17 dBm input power. Finally, the novel antenna and rectifier are connected as rectenna for MEH, which shows great potential due to the tunability of the polarization mode (right‐handed CP [RHCP]/left‐handed CP [LHCP]) and the flexibility of the structure.

Recyclable liquid metal – Graphene supercapacitor

Because of their high electrical conductivity, fluidic deformability, self-healing properties, and the possibility of recycling, Ga-based liquid metal alloys like eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) have tremendous potential as electrodes for stretchable energy storage devices. However, EGaIn droplets could never be used as electrodes in thin-film supercapacitors (SCs) at the desired micro/nano scale, because they rapidly coalesce into bulk EGaIn when contacting acidic/alkaline electrolytes. Here, we show that coating EGaIn droplets with only 0.08 wt% of reduced graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets tremendously improves their chemical stability. We fabricated binder-free GO-coated EGaIn nanocomposite electrodes that show excellent stability in a strong alkaline electrolyte. We demonstrated a symmetric soft-matter pseudo-SC with areal capacitances of 1200mF/cm2@0.3 mA/cm2 and 220mF/cm2@1mA/cm2, which is > 10 × compared to previous SCs based on bulk EGaIn. This SC retains 98.4 % of the initial capacitance after 4000 electrochemical cycles and exhibits comparable self-discharge rates to state-of-the-art flexible pseudo-SCs. Surprisingly, applying mechanical strain results in improved areal capacitance. We demonstrate rapid, laser-based fabrication of a wirelessly chargeable elastic film with an integrated energy harvesting antenna and energy-storage SC that can be used in wearable biomonitoring patches, and e-textiles. Finally, we demonstrate the recovery of the metals from the disposed of SCs through an electrowinning technique.

Dualband rectenna for RF energy harvesting using metamaterial reflect array and novel matching technique

Harvesting energy from multiple sources, antenna gain, rectifier power conversion efficiency, and rectenna size are essential properties to consider while designing an antenna for ambient energy harvesting. This paper represents two high-gain, dualband antennas using a metamaterial Artificial Magnetic Conductor array. Both antennas are designed to harvest energy from GSM-1800, and the 2.45 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) frequency bands. The first antenna achieves a gain of 6.85 dB and 6.57 dB at 1.8 GHz and 2.45 GHz, respectively. The second configuration shows a gain of 7.11 dB at 1.8 GHz and 6.79 dB at 2.45 GHz. The antennas are circularly polarized at 2.45 GHZ.A dualband rectifier is designed based on a novel matching procedure to complete the energy harvesting system. The measured peak conversion efficiency is 72 % at 1.8GHz and 65 % at 2.45GHz with an area of 33 ×55 mm2.

Aperture Sharing Metasurface-Based Wide-Beam Antenna for Energy Harvesting

Since the available ambient power level is usually quite low for radio frequency energy harvesting, it is very desirable for an antenna to have both a high gain and a wide beamwidth. Usually, they cannot be achieved simultaneously. In order to overcome this limitation, a multi-port antenna using a nonuniform metasurface (MTS) is presented. In this MTS-based antenna, three modes with complementary radiation patterns are excited through one middle and two side aperture-coupled feeding ports. The first mode is the fundamental TM10 mode with in-phase current distributions on the MTS. It has a broadside directional radiation pattern with a high gain. The second and third modes are symmetrical to each other at a high mode. They have opposite current distributions on two sides of the MTS. These two modes have a directional radiation pattern with a tilted angle. These three modes share the same aperture but are excited by three different feeds. Each feed is connected to a rectifier. By combining direct current (DC) output to a single load, an antenna with a wide beam and a high gain can be effectively achieved, although each mode has the usual limitation of gain and beamwidth. The key advantage of this proposed rectenna is that the unit cells on the MTS layer can be reused to excite different MTS modes with different radiation patterns simultaneously. Thus, a wide beamwidth can be achieved. Three realized beams are oriented at −35°, 0°, and + 35° respectively. By combining the DC output from the three modes, the proposed rectenna has effectively achieved a beamwidth of 114° with a gain ranging from 8 to 9.8 dBi. The RF-to-DC conversion efficiency of the rectifiers is 3%-67% at 2.45 GHz when the input power ranges from −35 to 0 dBm. The proposed MTS antenna with an overall size of λ0 × λ0 × 0.03 λ0 can achieve 12% fractional bandwidth.

Design of a compact super wideband all-textile antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting and wearable devices

Design of a compact super wideband all-textile antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting and wearable devices

Design and measurement of the receiving antenna for electromagnetic field energy harvesting in UHF band

This paper aims to design a receiving antenna for harvesting energy using the wireless energy transfer method based on the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band. The study was conducted by comparing four types of the receiving antenna design. A mathematical and experimental analysis has been done to evaluate the performance of the designed antennas. A Yagi-Uda antenna is utilized as the transmitter. The results show that the zig-zag type antenna has the best performance. It can receive electromagnetic energy from a transmitter with maximum efficiency is 0.1% for the receiving antenna volume of 0.34 cm<sup>3</sup>. The proposed method can meet the energy necessity of an implant device with a charging time of approximately 21.61 hours for the 700 mAh rechargeable battery capacity. As our preliminary conclusion, based on our results, this proposed method can be used as a reference for the practice in the WET field and the medical and restricted areas in the electromagnetic energy harvesting case.

Circularly polarized metamaterial Antenna in energy harvesting wearable communication systems

When battery powered sensors are spread out in places that are sometimes hard to reach, sustaining them become difficult. Therefore, to develop this technology on a large scale such as in the internet of things (IoT) scenario, it is necessary to figure out how to power them. The proffered solution in this work, is to get energy from the environment using energy harvesting Antennas. This work presents a wearable circular polarized efficient receiving and transmitting sensors for medical, IoT, and communication systems at the frequency range of WLAN, and GSM from 900 MHz up to 6 GHz. Using a cascaded system block of a circularly polarized Antenna, a rectifier and t-matching network, the design was successfully simulated. A DC charging voltage of 2.8V was achieved to power-up batteries of the wearable and IoT sensors. The major contribution of this work is the tri-band Antenna system which is able to harvest reflected Wi-Fi frequencies and also GSM frequencies combined in a miniaturized manner. This innovative configuration is a step forward in building devices with over 80% duty cycle.

Circularly polarized metamaterial Antenna in energy harvesting wearable communication systems

When battery powered sensors are spread out in places that are sometimes hard to reach, sustaining them become difficult. Therefore, to develop this technology on a large scale such as in the internet of things (IoT) scenario, it is necessary to figure out how to power them. The proffered solution in this work, is to get energy from the environment using energy harvesting Antennas. This work presents a wearable circular polarized efficient receiving and transmitting sensors for medical, IoT, and communication systems at the frequency range of WLAN, and GSM from 900 MHz up to 6 GHz. Using a cascaded system block of a circularly polarized Antenna, a rectifier and t-matching network, the design was successfully simulated. A DC charging voltage of 2.8V was achieved to power-up batteries of the wearable and IoT sensors. The major contribution of this work is the tri-band Antenna system which is able to harvest reflected Wi-Fi frequencies and also GSM frequencies combined in a miniaturized manner. This innovative configuration is a step forward in building devices with over 80% duty cycle.

A multiband coplanar based circularly polarized rectenna with high efficiency for IOT energy harvesting Applications

This paper presents a multiband rectenna with a circular polarization Archimedean antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting. The performance of the rectifier by matching to a higher impedance, about 150 O, improved. The antenna's various parameters are studied to adjust its input impedance until the closest input impedance to the rectifier is obtained. The antenna is fed by a coplanar waveguide transmission line (CPW) to eliminate balun, which helps to have a compact and integrated structure. For the proximity of the input impedance, just two inductors are used to match the impedance. By using fewer elements in the matching circuit, structure loss is reduced. A sample of the rectenna is made to confirm the simulation results. The proposed model has a maximum efficiency of about 96% at −8.5 dBm received power and can harvest energy with circular polarization in GSM1800 and 3G bands (1.71, 1.84, 1.94, and 2.14 GHz). The proposed rectenna can be used in low-power devices of non-cellular internet of things (IoT) according to the mentioned characteristics.

Printed circularly polarized spilt ring resonator monopole antenna for energy harvesting

Printed circularly polarized spilt ring resonator monopole antenna for energy harvesting

Design and Implementation of Multi-Band Antenna for Energy Harvesting

Design and Implementation of Multi-Band Antenna for Energy Harvesting

Substrate effect and structure optimization of fabric-based circularly polarized dipole antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting

Radio frequency energy harvesting on textiles is seen as a method of enabling sustainable battery-free operation for wearable devices, while few works have clarified the influence of fabric properties on antenna performance. To prepare successfully a fabric-based circularly polarized antenna for radio frequency energy harvesting, this paper will clarify the effect of key fabric characteristics (such as dielectric properties and fabric thickness) on antenna performance by a finite element simulation. The simulated results showed the antenna resonant frequency is inversely proportional to the half square of the fabric’s dielectric constant, and the antenna radiation efficiency and gain are inversely proportional to the square of its dielectric loss tangent and thickness. Then, for the typical fabric substrates, the structure parameters of the existing circularly polarized antenna are optimized to work in the expected working frequency band, and the dominating structure parameter of the antenna in performance was identified. The optimized antenna prototype has excellent performance. The antenna has a bandwidth of 350 MHz and a maximum transmission distance of 190 cm. The received signal strength indication per unit area is 2.35 mW/cm2 and the output voltage is 1.19 mV/cm2 at a distance of 100 cm. It is concluded that the flexible size-minimized wide bandwidth circularly polarized radio frequency energy harvesting antenna screen-printed on fabric was derived from a commercial circularly polarized antenna with fiber-reinforced epoxy plate (FR4) substrate, and the critical geometrical and material parameters of the fabric substrate for this antenna performance as well as the affecting mechanism were identified.

Ring slot CP antenna for the hybrid electromagnetic solar energy harvesting and IoT application

The research proposed a compact antenna integrated with dual-function solar cells to optimize internet of things (IoT) communication devices and energy harvesting. The use of integrated solar cells with electromagnetic elements as antennas and energy-gathering in a design is a solution for wireless communication sensors and simultaneously electromagnetic and solar energy harvesting. Radiation performance testing of solar cell antennas and optical experiments were carried out to test the ability of solar energy collection. A double feed ring slot circular polarization (CP) antenna coplanar antenna with a configuration has highly sensitive to vertical and horizontal waves. It is to accommodate the impact of circular polarization wave and solar cell distortion on antenna performance. This technology promises green communications, renewable energy, and environmental protection to combine wireless communication and green battery components. The study presents the performance and design results of a double line-feed microstrip antenna circuit connected with CP antenna on the S-band for IoT communication by accommodating electromagnetic energy transmission. The importance of adopting an integrated radio frequency (RF) solar energy harvesting strategy rather than a single source method makes this research very significant in its novelty by optimizing the analysis of multiple signal access in IoT communications.

Switch-Beam Antenna Techniques for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring With GaAs-Based Solar Energy Harvesting

<bold xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">The structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is addressed by leveraging two distinct but interrelated aspects: GaAs-based solar energy harvesting and switched-beam antenna strategies in combination with asynchronous media access control (MAC) protocols. The joint optimization of solar energy harvesting and switched-beam directional antennas at the nodes is considered and compared with an equivalent omnidirectional antenna network. To address the limited energy budget in battery-based sensor nodes which is a serious limitation in long-lived applications such as bridge SHM, an efficient solar harvesting solution is put forth based on the good performance of GaAs cells even under low-light conditions. Given the current state of the art in GaAs cells, single-junction cells were selected due to the cost of double-or triple-junction versions. The simulation model includes the residual energy capacity with GaAs-based solar energy harvesting of actual selected components (microcontroller, radio interface chip). The model was implemented on top of the Omnet<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$++$</tex-math> </inline-formula> and Silvaco Atlas simulator. The comparative study in this article provides insights into realistic bridge SHM sensor networks, leveraging solar energy harvesting and switched-beam antennas.</b>

A Compact Broadband Stepped Bow-Tie Antenna for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting

A Compact Broadband Stepped Bow-Tie Antenna for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting

Nano Antenna for Energy Harvesting

In this paper, the design &amp; development of a Nano Antenna for Energy Harvesting is presented in a nutshell. The ever-increasing demand for energy in today's world has compelled us to seek alternative energy sources. While photovoltaic devices are being researched and developed to improve their efficiency, they can only extract energy from the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Consequently, a new device called a Nano antenna has been developed that can convert thermal energy from the infrared region of the spectrum into electricity. In the near future, it is expected to contribute significantly to various fields, including space communication, broadband wireless links, wireless optical communication, mobile communication (5G), radar detection, and higher-order frequency applications. Nano antennas can be fabricated using different techniques such as electron beam lithography, focused ion beam, and nanoimprinting lithography. This paper focuses on the nanoimprinting lithography technique, as it is a cost-effective and high-throughput method. Additionally, the issue of material selection for nano antennas is a significant challenge, and the paper will discuss strategies for overcoming it. The work done &amp; presented in this paper is the result of the mini-project work that has been done by the first sem engineering students of the college and as such there is little novelty in it and the references are being taken from various sources from the internet, the paper is being written by the students to test their writing skills in the starting of their engineering career and also to test the presentation skills during their mini-project presentation. The work done &amp; presented in this paper is the report of the assignment / alternate assessment tool as a part and parcel of the academic assignment of the first year subject on nanotechnology &amp; IoT.

Wirelessly powered large-area electronics for the Internet of Things

Powering the increasing number of sensor nodes used in the Internet of Things creates a technological challenge. The economic and sustainability issues of battery-powered devices mean that wirelessly powered operation—combined with environmentally friendly circuit technologies—will be needed. Large-area electronics—which can be based on organic semiconductors, amorphous metal oxide semiconductors, semiconducting carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional semiconductors—could provide a solution. Here we examine the potential of large-area electronics technology in the development of sustainable, wirelessly powered Internet of Things sensor nodes. We provide a system-level analysis of wirelessly powered sensor nodes, identifying the constraints faced by such devices and highlighting promising architectures and design approaches. We then explore the use of large-area electronics technology in wirelessly powered Internet of Things sensor nodes, with a focus on low-power transistor circuits for digital processing and signal amplification, as well as high-speed diodes and printed antennas for data communication and radiofrequency energy harvesting.