Design of rectifier antenna for microwave energy harvesting application

Other Title(s)

تصميم هوائي مع دائرة تقويم لتطبيقات حصاد طاقة الميكروويف

Dissertant

al-Luh, Hazim Muhammad Jamal Muhammad

Thesis advisor

Skaik, Talal Fayiz

Comitee Members

Abu Hadrus, Ammar Muhammad Ramadan
Abu Nasr, Mustafa Hasan

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Electrical Engineering Department

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2016

English Abstract

Energy harvesting technology has received a lot of attention as the demand of long life span of energy source increase.

Towards that, Rectenna (Rectifier Antenna) or Energy Harvesting system is designed in the current work and it consists of antenna, matching circuit and a rectifier circuit.

Microstrip patch antenna where designed to harvest GSM signals.

Single-patch antenna and array antennas are designed at 900 MHz for this purpose.

The designed antenna has good return loss performance and the array antennas are designed to achieve higher gain and hence more captured energy.

The design and optimizing of the performance of the proposed antenna are performed by using Computer Simulation Technology software CST studio design. The rectifier circuit is a 7 stage voltage doubler circuit using Schottky diodes and it is designed to convert the RF energy into a DC output.

A matching circuit has been designed from a single stub to match the complex input impedance of the rectifier circuit to the standard 50 Ω.

The design of the rectifier circuits is performed by using NI Multisim 14 software and the output voltage of rectifier was 2.283V. A single stage rectifier circuit along with matching circuit are fabricated on an FR-4 substrate.

Main Subjects

Telecommunications Engineering
Electronic engineering

No. of Pages

67

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-735100