Integration of antennas with sun-tracking solar panels

A. Narbudowicz; O. Oconchubhair; M. J. Ammann; D. Heberling

doi:10.1049/el.2016.1040

Integration of antennas with sun-tracking solar panels

A. Narbudowicz
, O. Oconchubhair
, M. J. Ammann
, D. Heberling

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

A low-cost solution for antennas integrated into solar cells, allowing their implementation in solar tracking installations is proposed. The proposed passive device autonomously adjusts the phase shift of a two-element array proportional to the panel rotation. Consequently, the main beam is steered to compensate for panel rotation and maintain a radio link. The proposed device operates for a rotation of ±45° with an amplitude variation of ≤0.4 dB at 2.51 GHz.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1325-1327
Number of pages	3
Journal	Electronics Letters
Volume	52
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2016.1040
Publication status	Published - 21 Jul 2016

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