Design and Fabrication of Rectenna for RF

Energy Harvesting

Supervised By Engr. Maria Bano

GROUP MEMBERS:
MUHAMMAD WAQAS
M NAEEM AKBAR
MUHAMMAD BILAL MUGHAL
IRFAN ULLAH KHAN

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 Contents
 Introduction
 Aims and Objective
 Components used
 Antenna Parameters
 Block diagram
 Circuit diagram
 Applications
 Limitations
 Conclusion
 Reference

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 Introduction
The concept of energy harvesting is to receive
energy from surroundings sources and convert it
into a useful form to power any applications or
store the energy for future usage.
 In wireless (RF) energy harvesting,
electromagnetic energy from multiple sources
received by an antenna, converts it into an
electric energy and use as a power source for
other devices.

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 Aims and Objective:
To design and fabricate rectenna for RF
energy harvesting.
To utilize the ambient energy present in
environment.

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 Cont…
The RF energy harvesting helps to
utilize free energy available in our
environment.

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 Component Used
Software
HFSS
ADS

Hardware
Substrate FR-04 with Copper etching
Matching circuit (micro strip)
Rectifier
LED

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 Antenna Parameters:
Following are few parameter that describe antenna specification
Return loss
Voltage standing wave ratio
Radiation Pattern
Gain

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 Return Loss:
Also called as S11 parameter
Describe how effectively powered deliver from transmission to load
Express in term of incident power to reflected power

R = 20log(Pi/Pr)
Usually return loss is in DB
In wireless communication return loss must be -10 DB

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 Voltage Standing Wave Ratio:
VSWR is a function of the reflection coefficient
Which describes the power reflected from the antenna.

In wireless communication we need VSWR should be equal or less than

2.

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 Radiation Pattern

A radiation pattern defines the variation of the power radiated by an

antenna as a function of the direction away from the antenna.
Different antenna designs produce different radiation patterns.
The complexity of the pattern depends on the antenna's design and
construction.
A pattern is "isotropic" if the radiation pattern is the same in all
directions.

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 Gain:
The term Antenna Gain describes how much power is transmitted in the
direction of peak radiation to that of an isotropic source.

A 3db gain means anteena have 3 db more gain with respect to that of
isotropic antenna

Providing same input power to both antennas

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 Transmission Methods:
Here two transmission Methods are used

Fed line transmission Method

Inset Fed transmission Method

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 Matching technique
Two Methdos are used here

Quarter wave transformer

Open and Short stubs

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 Block Diagram

Antenna
Matching
circuit
Rectifier
RF
Sources Load

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 Antenna Diagram:

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 Circuit Diagram

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 Applications
RF energy harvesting is used to operate and charge
low-power appliances.

 At short range, this strength is used to trickle charge

a number of devices inclusive of GPS or RLTS
tracking tags.

 It can be used to operate smart sensors(Wireless

sensors for temperature, humidity and proximity
sensors)
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 Limitation
Wireless energy harvesting has lot of limitations due
to its dependency on external sources which are prone
to atmospheric changes, physical obstacles.

 Received power from the sources is too low and level

is often varies in time.

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 Conclusion
In conclusion, emerging technologies like Internet of Things
will require efficient energy source to connect billions of smart
devices and sensors for wide spectrum of applications.
 Long term sustainable and reliable energy sources are
inevitable for any efficient system.

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 References
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“Introduction to RF Energy Harvesting,” Wearable Sensors, pp.
299–322, Jan. 2014.
[2] A. M. Shire, N. Abdullah, and E. Mohd, “Design of rectenna
for wireless energy harvesting,” Proc. - 14th IEEE Student Conf.
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[3] R. Krishnamoothy and K. Umapathy, “Design And
Implementation Of Microstrip Antenna For Energy Harvesting
Charging Low Power Devices,” in 2018 Fourth International
Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronics, Information,
Communication and Bio-Informatics (AEEICB), 2018, pp. 1–3.

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 Cont...
[4] M. Kinman, “What is Energy Harvesting and How Does it
Work?,” 2010. [Online]. Available:
https://www.ecnmag.com/article/2010/04/what-energy-
harvesting-and-how-does-it-work. [Accessed: 18-Feb-2019].
[5] B. CHAO, “Making low-voltage energy harvesting practical:
Part 1 — The history of energy harvesting - Electronic Products,”
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https://www.electronicproducts.com/Power_Products/Invertors/
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[6] crystal Cooper, “Forms of Energy Harvesting. Types of

Energy Harvesting.,”
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