Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)677-679
Abstract
In this paper, a base station antenna changing the backward radiation energy into
the renewable RF energy is proposed. The antenna is composed of the array radiator and RF
harvesters using slots on the ground plane. The main radiator having a planar dipole type and
several RF harvesters on the ground plane are used to renew the RF energy from the main
radiators. The several harvesting ports are connected with the RF combiner by coaxial cables
and the harvested energy is changed into the DC voltage through the rectifier circuit. Because the
surface current on the ground plane flows into the RF harvesting port in the slot, the performance
of the main radiator is little disturbed.
As a result, the amount of the harvested energy from this base station antenna is approximately
0.16% of the originally radiated power. The simulated radiation performances of the proposed
antenna are almost same with that of the antenna without the harvester.
Citation
Woo-Jin Byun,
Jung-Ick Moon,
In-Kui Cho,
Seong-Min Kim,
and
Jae-Hun Yun,
"Design of Base Station Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)677-679