Miniature circularly polarized rectenna with reduced out-of-band harmonics

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-110

  Ali, Mohammod ^a   Yang, Guangli ^a   Dougal, Roger ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna; Rectenna; Sensor; Wireless

Indexed keywords

BAND-REJECT FILTERS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; EMBEDDED SENSORS; HARMONIC EMISSIONS; HARMONIC SUPPRESSION; HIGH DATA RATE COMMUNICATIONS; OUT-OF-BAND; RECTENNA; RECTENNAS; SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; WIRELESS;

ANTENNAS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

SENSORS;

EID: 34547102373     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.872411     Document Type: Article

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