Electrically small GPS L1 rectennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 935-938

  Zhu, Ning ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a   Xin, Hao ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrically small antenna; metamaterial; parasitic element; power harvesting; wireless power transmission (WPT)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVELY LOADED LOOPS; COMPLEX IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC COUPLING; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; INPUT POWER; NEAR FIELDS; PARASITIC ELEMENT; POWER HARVESTING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RECTENNA SYSTEMS; RECTENNAS; RECTIFYING EFFICIENCY; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION (WPT);

ANTENNAS; DISTILLATION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; METAMATERIALS;

RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 80053266005     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2167310     Document Type: Article

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