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Broadband dual linear polarized (DLP) antenna array for energy harvesting system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2019

Dalia N. Elsheakh Open the ORCID record for Dalia N. Elsheakh [Opens in a new window]
Dalia N. Elsheakh*
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii @ Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Electronices Research Institute, Cairo,Egypt
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Author for correspondence: Dalia N. Elsheakh, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A broadband linear polarized antenna is designed for radio frequency energy harvesting. The antenna covers the frequency range from 1 up to 6 GHz with relative impedance bandwidth of 126% at −6 dB reflection coefficient |S11| and extended from 1.1 to 3.3 GHz and from 4.2 to 5.6 GHz at |S11| ≤ −10 dB. A 2 × 2 dual linear polarized (DLP) antenna array is designed based on the antenna element by using equal phase and equal power divider 1-to-4 Wilkinson power divider with 180° phase shifter. The DLP antenna array covers the frequency band from 1.8 to 2.9 GHz. This frequency band covers a wide range of modern wireless communication standards, including GSM 1800, UMTS 2100, Wi-Fi 2.4, and most of LTE bands. The developed array prototype was then used to experimentally validate the simulation results. The horizontally and vertically polarized gain of the designed array were found to be quite similar across the 1.8–2.9 frequency band with an average gain value of 5.5 dBi.

Keywords

Arraydual linear polarized (DLP)energy harvesting (EH) and radio frequency (RF)wideband
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 11 , Issue 10 , December 2019 , pp. 1017 - 1023
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2019 

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