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Broadband Circularly Polarized Rectenna With Wide Dynamic-Power-Range for Efficient Wireless Power Transfer

Broadband Circularly Polarized Rectenna With Wide Dynamic-Power-Range for Efficient Wireless Power Transfer

Authors :
Zhi-Xia Du
Shao Fei Bo
Yun Fei Cao
Jun-Hui Ou
Xiu Yin Zhang
Source :
IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 80561-80571 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
IEEE, 2020.

Abstract

This paper presents a circularly polarized (CP) rectenna with the advantage of achieving high efficiency in both wide operating power and frequency ranges. The proposed rectenna is composed of a high-efficiency rectifier and broadband CP antenna. In the proposed rectifier, a novel wideband resistance compression technique is presented, highly improving the matching performance of the circuit in a wide range of input power and frequency. The technique is achieved by an impedance manipulation network and a coupled-lines-based resistance compression network (RCN). Theoretical analysis is carried out and closed-form equations are derived for the design of the rectifier. Simulated and measured results show that over 60% (up to 76%) conversion efficiency is achieved for the input power range of 5-17 dBm and frequency band of 1.7-2.9 GHz (mobile, Wi-Fi and ISM bands). Subsequently, unlike the conventional half-wavelength slot antenna, a compact CP antenna with a side length of quarter wavelength is designed by using a 1-wavelength loop slot and a coupled-line-based phase shifter. It has wide axial-ratio bandwidth and good radiation pattern. At last, by integrating the proposed rectifier together with the CP slot antenna, a broadband CP rectenna is completed with higher efficiency by about 18.6% than that without wideband RCN.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21693536
Volume :
8
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
IEEE Access
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.95a27c0c22434430bf1d7d0e84df6c5f
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2985294