Amorphous Silicon Solar Vivaldi Antenna

Oisin O'Conchubhair; Kansheng Yang; Patrick McEvoy; Max J. Ammann

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2015.2479189

Amorphous Silicon Solar Vivaldi Antenna

Oisin O'Conchubhair, Kansheng Yang, Patrick McEvoy, Max J. Ammann

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

An ultrawideband solar Vivaldi antenna is proposed. Cut from amorphous silicon cells, it maintains a peak power at 4.25 V, which overcomes a need for lossy power management components. The wireless communications device can yield solar energy or function as a rectenna for dual-source energy harvesting. The solar Vivaldi performs with 0.5-2.8 dBi gain from 0.95-2.45 GHz, and in rectenna mode, it covers three bands for wireless energy scavenging.

Original language	English
Article number	7270278
Pages (from-to)	893-896
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2015.2479189
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Amorphous silicon solar cell
Vivaldi
energy scavenging
ultrawideband

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