Integrated antenna currents on a polycrystalline silicon solar cell

Author

O´Conchubhair, Oisin ; McEvoy, Patrick ; Ammann, Max J.

Author_Institution

Antenna & High Freq. Res. Centre, Sch. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Dublin Inst. of Technol., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Issues associated with exploiting a multicrystalline silicon solar cell as a ground plane for an Inverted-F Antenna at 2.45 GHz are reported. Current flow on the solar lattice greatly affects the impedance match of a microstrip transmission line positioned above the solar cell. As a result, an antenna designed with a transmission line parallel to the lattice experiences performance degradation when positioned perpendicular to the lattice. A 6 mm wide grounding strip below the transmission line isolates the microstrip sufficiently to achieve acceptable antenna performance with small reductions in solar cell power output. A low profile Inverted-F Antenna with greater gain, wider beamwidth and larger solar cell exposure than previous patch integrations is reported.

Keywords

UHF antennas; earthing; elemental semiconductors; impedance matching; microstrip components; microstrip lines; planar inverted-F antennas; silicon; solar cells; Si; current flow; frequency 2.45 GHz; ground plane; grounding strip; integrated antenna current; inverted-F antenna design; microstrip transmission line impedance match; multicrystalline silicon solar cell; polycrystalline silicon solar cell; size 6 mm; solar lattice; Lattices; Microstrip; Photovoltaic cells; Power transmission lines; Silicon; Transmission line antennas; Integration; Low Profile Printed Inverted-F Antenna; Multicrystalline Solar Cell; Solar Antenna; Solar Lattice Currents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Type

conf

Filename

7228480