TY - GEN
T1 - Fully inkjet printed wide band cantor fractal antenna for RF energy harvesting application
AU - Bakytbekov, Azamat
AU - Maza, Armando Rodriguez
AU - Nafe, Mahmoud
AU - Shamim, Atif
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2017/6/7
Y1 - 2017/6/7
N2 - Energy harvesting from ambient RF signals is feasible, particularly from the GSM bands such as 900MHz, 1800MHz and the 3G band at 2.1GHz. This requires a wideband receive antenna which can cover all these bands with decent gain performance and an omnidirectional radiation pattern. In this work, a novel Cantor fractal antenna has been designed which fulfills the above mentioned performance requirements. Antenna has been realized through a combination of 3D inkjet printing of plastic substrate and 2D inkjet printing of metallic nanoparticles based ink. The stable impedance and radiation performance of the antenna over a bandwidth of 0.8GHz to 2.2GHz (93 %) shows the feasibility of its employment in wide band energy harvesting applications.
AB - Energy harvesting from ambient RF signals is feasible, particularly from the GSM bands such as 900MHz, 1800MHz and the 3G band at 2.1GHz. This requires a wideband receive antenna which can cover all these bands with decent gain performance and an omnidirectional radiation pattern. In this work, a novel Cantor fractal antenna has been designed which fulfills the above mentioned performance requirements. Antenna has been realized through a combination of 3D inkjet printing of plastic substrate and 2D inkjet printing of metallic nanoparticles based ink. The stable impedance and radiation performance of the antenna over a bandwidth of 0.8GHz to 2.2GHz (93 %) shows the feasibility of its employment in wide band energy harvesting applications.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625602
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7928601/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020225758&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928601
DO - 10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928601
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020225758
SN - 9788890701870
SP - 489
EP - 491
BT - 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -