• DocumentCode
    1901128
  • Title

    Low-profile planar rectenna for batteryless RFID sensors

  • Author

    Olgun, Ugur ; Chen, Chi-Chih ; Volakis, John L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-17 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a rectenna (i.e., rectifier + antenna), design is proposed and integrated with RFID sensors to harvest ambient power from the RF devices operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and convert it to DC. The proposed rectenna combines a two-stage Dickson zero-bias Schottky rectifier circuit with a miniature antenna. Measured performance for the rectifier is given and shown to be 70% efficient in converting RF energy to DC over a wide range of input power.
  • Keywords
    Schottky diodes; UHF antennas; planar antennas; radiofrequency identification; rectennas; rectifiers; RF energy-DC conversion; batteryless RFID sensors; frequency 2.4 GHz; low-profile planar rectenna; two-stage Dickson zero-bias Schottky rectifier circuit; Antenna measurements; Gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Rectennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4967-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2010.5562220
  • Filename
    5562220