Amorphous Silicon Solar Vivaldi Antenna

O’Conchubhair, Oisin; Kang, Yang; McEvoy, Patrick; Ammann, Max J.

doi:10.1109/lawp.2015.2479189

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“…A monopole antenna integrated with a single solar cell for IoT and wearable applications has been proposed in [18] with a relative bandwidth of 10% and a gain of -10 dBi at 1.575 GHz. To improve the antenna performance, an ultrawideband Vivaldi antenna was discussed in [19] with an end-fire radiation pattern by cutting an open slot on a single solar cell. To integrate more solar cells, 36 solar cells have been introduced into a planar antenna for GPS applications.…”

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“…A monopole antenna integrated with a solar cell for wearable applications was presented in [18]. By cutting certain shapes on the solar cell, a Vivaldi antenna with an end-fire radiation pattern was designed in [19]. To enhance the ability of DC power generation, a solar cell array with 36 solar cells have been used as the radiation structure of the proposed GPS antenna [20,21,22].…”

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Dual-function slot antenna integrated with solar cells for the 1.575-GHz band

Zhao

Wang

et al. 2020

IEICE Electron. Express

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A linearly polarized slot antenna integrated with solar cells is presented. The proposed antenna operates at the center frequency of 1.575 GHz for the global navigation satellite systems. 40 solar cells are adopted for the radiation structure and 4 slots are formed by these solar cells, which can not only be used for wireless communication but also generate DC energy via the photoelectric effect. The proposed design has achieved a relative bandwidth of 19.9% from 1.45 GHz to 1.77 GHz. Bidirectional radiation performance has been realized and the measured gain at 1.575 GHz is 6.6 dBi.

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Dual-function slot antenna integrated with solar cells for the 1.575-GHz band

Zhao

Wang

et al. 2020

IEICE Electron. Express

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“…S. V. Shynu et al [10] integrated a double-slot antenna with an amorphous silicon solar cell by covering a dual-band WLAN. K Yang et al [11] replaced the copper grounding plane of the vivaldi antenna with an amorphous silicon solar cell; while the solant achieves a high degree of integration, there is a certain interference between the solar cell and the antenna. M. Danesh et al [12] used a monopole antenna in combination with an amorphous silicon solar cell, and placed only the solar cell in the radiating portion of the monopole antenna, resulting in low space utilization.…”

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Integration of Microstrip Slot Array Antenna with Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Bai

Zhang

et al. 2020

Sensors

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This paper describes the integration of microstrip slot array antennas with dye-sensitized solar cells that can power array antennas at 5.8 GHz, ensuring normal communications. To appraise the antennas, a 2 × 2 circularly polarized microstrip slot array antenna integrated with dye-sensitized solar cells using a stacked design method was analyzed, fabricated and measured. The size of the entire array is 140 mm × 140 mm, where the size of each solar cell is 35 mm × 35 mm. The results show that the effect of the antenna has a slight influence on the output performance of the solar cells, and the interference of the output current of the solar cells to the antenna feeding system is negligible. The gain of the array antenna increases by 0.12 dB and the axial ratio is reduced to 1.50 dB after the integration of dye-sensitized solar cells. The integration saves a lot of space, and has the ability of self-sustaining power generation, thus providing reliable and long-term communication for various communication systems.

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“…In the open literature, exploitation of Vivaldi-like antennas in harvesting systems has been described [15]: the Vivaldi concept was applied to an amorphous silicon solar Vivaldi harvester. Similar design concepts of the Vivaldi antenna are presented in [16], where a novel compact end-fire antipodal Vivaldi antenna with bandwidth from 2 GHz to more than 12 GHz is proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications e.g.…”

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