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Shorted Microstrip Patch Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting Application

Ashish Upadhyay, Bimal Garg

Abstract


In this study, a shorted microstrip patch antenna is designed for ambient Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting Application. The proposed antenna covers the long-term evolution signals between 2300-2400 MHz frequencies, the proposed antenna is compact in size and shorting pin is introduced on the top side of the radiating patch. The patch is loaded on FR-4 lossy substrate with thickness of 1.6 mm and the Defected Ground Structure with rectangular slots is used for enhancing the bandwidth of the proposed antenna. The proposed antenna receives Radio frequency signals merely from all the directions. The efficiency of proposed antenna is 58% at 2.35 GHz frequency and RF-DC conversion efficiency is 46%. In this study, Reflection Coefficient, Radiation pattern, Gain plot, Radiation Efficiency and Efficiency of rectifier is also presents. A bridge rectifier consists of Diodes, Capacitor and load for the conversion of Radio frequency Energy into Direct Current.

Keywords: defected ground structure (DGS), direct current (DC), energy harvesting, long term evolution (LTE), radio frequency (RF), shorted microstrip patch

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrfd.v4i2.861

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