Dennis Walker, Afraz Haider, Jonathan Arifin, Muhammad Jivani, Karan Kataria,

Sesh Andavolu, Ziad Ghneim

dmw016500@utdallas.edu,aih051000@utdallas.edu,
jxa053000@utdallas.edu,jivani@student.utdallas.edu,ksk023000@utdallas.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas 75083-0688, U.S.A.

Project Goals: Project Results:

Research on the mediums for efficient wireless power transmission.
Select an appropriate frequency that is compatible with commercial
devices (2.4 GHz).
Design, test and optimize a rectenna (rectifying antenna)
matched to the source that converts Radio Frequency into usable DC.
By the end of Senior Design II, it is our goal to power a small device
wireslessly with our rectenna design.
We decided on developing a wireless transmittal device based on radio
frequency to complement the greater ranger factor in our design.
We researched and studied in detail the different aspects of RF circuit
design such as microstrip design, impedance matching and patch
antenna design.
 Based on our knowledge from IEEE papers we designed a simple RF
rectifying circuit and simulated it on AWR software. The simulation
successfully displayed an efficiency of 55%.
 Using PCB 64 millimeter board we then designed a microstrip rectenna,
consisting of a 2.4 GHz patch antenna impedance matched to a
schottky diode and other lumped elements.

Project Overview:

We initially researched on various ways by which

power could be transmitted wirelessly including the
induction coil method, laser beam and radio
frequency.

Timeline

Topics
Researched on the topics for Senior Design 1.
(Team discussions)
 
Decided on the topic and created a proposal.
Submitted a team proposal to the instructor.
Started on the research for wireless power transfer.
Continued research on wireless power transfer.
Consulted with some professors for professional viewpoints.
Started the simulation on AWR for rectenna design.
Consulted the simulation with an AWR application
engineer.
Completed the simulation for rectenna design.
Implemented our simulation onto the microstrip board.
Tested the circuit.
Month
Project Conclusions/Outcomes:
January Successfully simulated our rectenna design in AWR Microwave Office
and VSS environment.
Designed rectennas consisting of patched or detachable antennas.
Laid out our rectenna design on the microstrip board.
February Could not sufficiently rectify Radio Frequency from antenna
to illuminate LED.
The rectenna design received a lot of noise distortion.
We will reevaluate our design in the second part of the project.
March
Overall, it was a useful learning experience that helped us gain knowledge
related to wireless power applications.
April