A Novel Six-Band Dual CP Rectenna Using Improved Impedance Matching Technique for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3160-3171

  Song, Chaoyun ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Carter, Paul ^b   Zhou, Jiafeng ^a   Yuan, Sheng ^a   Xu, Qian ^a   Kod, Muayad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Global Wireless Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband dual circular polarization (CP) antenna; broadband rectifier; radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting; rectifier

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION; RADIO WAVES; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TELEVISION ANTENNAS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; BROADBAND RECTIFIER; IMPEDANCE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW POWER WIRELESS; RADIO-FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING; RECTIFIER; RF ENERGY HARVESTING;

RECTENNAS;

EID: 84978286655     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2016.2565697     Document Type: Article

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