Rectangular meshed patch antenna integrated on silicon solar cell

Author

Sheikh, Shahin ; Shokooh-Saremi, Mehrdad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ferdowsi Univ. of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

fYear

2015

fDate

10-14 May 2015

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

206

Abstract

In this paper, rectangular meshed patch antenna with borosilicate glass substrate and silicon solar cell ground plane has been studied. The effect of solar cell ground plane on radio-electrical functionalities of the antenna comprehensively investigated. One prototype 7×3 meshed patch antenna has been fabricated and integrated on a typical silicon solar cell. Opto-radio-electrical measurements have been performed. Optical measurement shows 76% transparency for whole assembly (meshed patch and glass substrate). Gain has been measured about one dBi and measured bandwidth shows about 2.25% (10 dB) at center frequency of 2.77 GHz.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; borosilicate glasses; microstrip antennas; solar cells; borosilicate glass substrate; frequency 2.77 GHz; opto-radio-electrical measurements; radio-electrical functionalities; rectangular meshed patch antenna; silicon solar cell ground plane; Conferences; Decision support systems; Electrical engineering; Meshed patch; microstrip antenna; optical transparency; solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1971-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146210

Filename

7146210