TY - GEN
T1 - Wirelessly Powered IoT Sensor Facilitated by A Planar Electrically Small Huygens Rectenna
AU - Lin, Wei
AU - Ziolkowski, Richard W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7/5
Y1 - 2020/7/5
N2 - A wirelessly powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor system is presented in this paper. It is facilitated by a highly compact, planar electrically small Huygens rectenna. The rectenna is based on two metamaterial-inspired electrically small structures, an Egyptian axe dipole (EAD) and a capacitively loaded loop (CLL). The near-field resonant parasitic EAD and CLL structures are carefully designed to be a compact entity that excites a short dipole. A highly efficient rectifier circuit is seamlessly connected to this driven dipole, forming a rectenna. The whole rectenna system is fabricated on a single piece of PCB substrate. It is electrically small, has an ultra-thin profile, and is low cost and lightweight. The developed rectenna is able to wirelessly power IoT devices to realize battery-free systems. A wirelessly powered light detection sensor system is successfully demonstrated by augmenting the rectifier with a photocell.
AB - A wirelessly powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor system is presented in this paper. It is facilitated by a highly compact, planar electrically small Huygens rectenna. The rectenna is based on two metamaterial-inspired electrically small structures, an Egyptian axe dipole (EAD) and a capacitively loaded loop (CLL). The near-field resonant parasitic EAD and CLL structures are carefully designed to be a compact entity that excites a short dipole. A highly efficient rectifier circuit is seamlessly connected to this driven dipole, forming a rectenna. The whole rectenna system is fabricated on a single piece of PCB substrate. It is electrically small, has an ultra-thin profile, and is low cost and lightweight. The developed rectenna is able to wirelessly power IoT devices to realize battery-free systems. A wirelessly powered light detection sensor system is successfully demonstrated by augmenting the rectifier with a photocell.
KW - Electrically small antennas
KW - Huygens antennas
KW - Internet-of-Things
KW - rectennas
KW - sensors
KW - wireless power transfer
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEECONF35879.2020.9329954
DO - 10.1109/IEEECONF35879.2020.9329954
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85101606383
T3 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020 - Proceedings
SP - 17
EP - 18
BT - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, IEEECONF 2020
Y2 - 5 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -