Harvesting thermal infrared emission using nanodipole terminated by traveling wave rectifier

Author

Hashem Sayed, Islam E. ; Rafat, Nadia H. ; Soliman, Ezzeldin A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Math. & Phys., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A rectenna formed from nano-dipole antenna terminated by plasmonic metal-insulator-metal travelling wave transmission line rectifier is introduced. The proposed rectenna is suitable for thermal energy harvesting at 30 THz. The vertical spacing between the two metal layers is kept at 2 nm in order to maximize the rectifier´s responsivity. Such small spacing can be realized using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technique. If compared with rectennas with localized rectifiers, the proposed rectenna has an enhanced system efficiency due to the efficient matching between the nanotenna and rectifier.

Keywords

MIM devices; dipole antennas; energy harvesting; rectifiers; ALD technique; atomic layer deposition; nanodipole antenna; plasmonic metal-insulator-metal travelling wave transmission line rectifier; thermal energy harvesting; thermal infrared emission harvesting; Impedance; Metals; Plasmons; Power transmission lines; Rectennas; Rectifiers; infrared energy harvesting; nantennas; plasmonics; rectennas; rectifiers; transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

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

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228568