Abstract
In this communication, an ameliorate textile circularly polarized (CP) rectenna for harvesting the emitted RF energy in INSAT band is presented. The textile antenna is bendable, robust, and low mass so that it can be weaving into clothes of the smart soldier to charge the portable electronic devices in the battlefield. Weight burden on the soldiers is significantly reduced; indeed power handling capacity is increased by integrating the textile rectifying antenna into soldier clothes. The proposed textile rectenna has a 10-dB return-loss bandwidth of 1200 MHz (6.6–7.8 GHz) with the maximum gain 8.14 dB an overall size of 50 × 50 × 1.076 mm3. This antenna is suitable for INSAT band (6.725–7.025 GHz) RF energy harvesting operations. Measurement results are also shown with theoretical predictions, both of which are in quite good agreement.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Costanzo, A., Masotti, D., Aldrigo, M.: Compact Wearable Antennas for Battery-Less Systems Exploiting Fabrics and Magneto-Dielectric Materials, vol. 3, pp. 474–490 (2014)
Lemey, S., Declercq, F., Rogier, H.: Dual-band substrate integrated waveguide textile antenna with integrated solar harvester. IEEE Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett. 13(1), 269–272 (2014)
Lui, K.W., Murphy, O.H., Toumazou, C.: A wearable wideband circularly polarized textile antenna for effective power transmission on a wirelessly-powered sensor platform. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 61(7), 3873–3876 (2013)
Chahat, N., Zhadobov, M., Sauleau, R.: Antennas for body centric wireless communications at millimeter wave frequencies. Progress Compact Antennas. ISBN 978-953-51-1723-0 (2014)
Din, N.M., Chakrabarty, C.K., Bin Ismail, A., Devi, K.K.A.: Design of RF energy harvesting system for energizing low power devices. Prog. Electromagnet. Res. 132, 49–69 (2012)
Baiya, D.: On the Development of Conductive Textile Antennas-Thesis (2014)
Salvado, R., Loss, C., Gonçalves, R., Pinho, P.: Textile materials for the design of wearable antennas: a survey. sensors 12(11), 15841–15857 (2012)
Rafsec, U.P.M.: Tutorial Overview of Inductively Coupled RFID Systems. Available online at: www.rafsec.com/rfidsystems.pdf (2003)
Gupta, N., Singh, V.K., Ali, Z., Ahirwar, J.: Stacked textile antenna for multi band application using foam substrate. In: International Conference on Computational Modelling and Security (CMS 2016), Procedia Computer Science, vol. 85, pp. 871–877 (2016)
Singh, N.K., Singh, V.K., Naresh, B.: Textile antenna for microwave wireless power transmission. In: International Conference on Computational Modelling and Security (CMS 2016), Procedia Computer Science, vol. 85, pp. 856–861 (2016)
Osman, M.A.R., Abd Rahim, M.K., Azfar Abdullah, M., Samsuri, N.A., Zubir, F., Kamardin, K.: Design, implementation and performance of ultra-wideband textile antenna. Prog Electromagnet. Res. B 27, 307–325 (2011)
Marian, V., Allard, B., Vollaire, C., Verdier, J.: Strategy for microwave energy harvesting from ambient field or a feeding source. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 27, 4481–4491 (2012)
Singh, N., Singh, A.K., Singh, V.K.: Design and performance of wearable ultra wide band textile antenna for medical applications. Microwave Opt. Technol. Lett. 57(7), 1553–1557 (2015)
Singh, V.K., Ali, Z., Singh, A.K., Ayub, S.: A wideband compact microstrip antenna for DCS/PCS/WLAN applications. In: Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Informatics, pp. 1107–1113. Springer, India, (2014). ISBN: 978-81-322-1664-3
Singh, V., Ali, Z., Ayub, S., Singh, A.: Bandwidth optimization of compact microstrip antenna for PCS/DCS/bluetooth application. Central Eur. J. Eng., Springer 4(3), 281–286 (2014)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Naresh, B., Singh, V.K., Bhargavi, V. (2018). Low Power Circularly Polarized Wearable Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting. In: Garg, A., Bhoi, A., Sanjeevikumar, P., Kamani, K. (eds) Advances in Power Systems and Energy Management. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 436. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4394-9_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4394-9_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-4393-2
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-4394-9
eBook Packages: EnergyEnergy (R0)