• DocumentCode
    1939039
  • Title

    Survey of ground antenna systems for solar power satellite application

  • Author

    Bergsrud, Corey ; Noghanian, Sima

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota, 243 Centennial Drive, Stop 7164, Grand Forks, 58202-7165, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    2-9 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    15
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this work is to survey ground based antenna systems, specifically rectifying antennas (rectennas) for space solar powered application of Microwave Wireless Power Transfer (MWPT). The ground rectenna along with its circuit components (a receiving antenna, an input Low-Pass Filter (LPF), a rectifying circuit, and an output smoothing filter) is the basic building block of the high-power receiving array that is designed to capture and then convert the microwave energy into Direct Current (DC). Once in DC form, the energy is used for various human applications on earth.
  • Keywords
    Electromagnetic heating; Helicopters; Microwave antennas; Microwave circuits; Rectennas; Rectifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Aerospace Conference, 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Big Sky, MT
  • ISSN
    1095-323X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1812-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AERO.2013.6497329
  • Filename
    6497329