Towards the design of a RF-harvesting EBG ground plane

Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structures may be used to create magnetic conductors that can be used as ground planes for dipole and loop-like antennas without annihilating the radiation as electrically conducting ground planes would do. An EBG ground plane may be created by placing a Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) on a grounded dielectric slab. Since RF harvesting FSS structures have been demonstrated recently, we expect to be able to realize RF harvesting EBG ground planes too. In this paper the feasibility of this concept is presented through full-wave simulations. These results will be updated at the conference with modeling and measurement results.