Design of flower-shaped dipole nano-antenna for energy harvesting

Author

Hussein, M.Z.B. ; Fahmy Areed, Nihal Fayez ; Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, Salah S. A.

Author_Institution

Centre for Photonics & Smart Mater., Zewail City of Sci. & Technol., Giza, Egypt

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

41852

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

173

Abstract

In this study, a novel design of nano-antenna for energy harvesting is proposed and analysed using three-dimensional finite difference time-domain method. The new design consists of three elements nano-antenna with elliptical shape and with air gap. The numerical simulations are investigated for improving the harvesting efficiency of the nano-antennas within the wavelength range from 400 to 1400 nm. The suggested design has high efficiency of 74.6% at 500 nm where the irradiance of the sun is maximum. The proposed nano-antenna shows an improvement in the harvesting and the total harvesting efficiency over the conventional dipole antenna by 15 and 32.7%, respectively.

Keywords

dipole antennas; energy harvesting; finite difference time-domain analysis; nanophotonics; optical design techniques; air gap; efficiency 74.6 percent; elliptical shape; energy harvesting; flower-shaped dipole nanoantenna; numerical simulations; sun irradiance; three-dimensional finite difference time-domain method; wavelength 400 nm to 1400 nm;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optoelectronics, IET

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1751-8768

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/iet-opt.2013.0108

Filename

6856324