• DocumentCode
    3691508
  • Title

    Design and performance of micro-rectenna arrays for thermal energy harvesting

  • Author

    Yi Pan;Mark C. Rosamond;Andrew McDonald;Thomas Partridge;Doug Cartwright;Edmund H. Linfield;David Wood;Claudio Balocco

  • Author_Institution
    School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 2PN, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on the design and performance of a micro-rectenna device for harvesting wasted thermal energy. As an individual rectenna exhibits low efficiency and output power, we designed and studied a focal plane array (FPA) on a single semiconductor chip. Our FPA could be used for more general energy-harvesting applications as well as for THz imaging.
  • Keywords
    "Rectennas","Spirals","Semiconductor diodes","MODFETs","HEMTs","Antenna measurements"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2035
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327724
  • Filename
    7327724