Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces
A new wide-angle and polarization-insensitive metasurface (MS) instead of traditional antenna is built as the primary ambient energy harvester in this paper. The MS is a two-dimensional energy harvesting array that is composed of subwavelength electrical small ring resonator that is working at 2.5 G...
Main Authors: | , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
MDPI AG
2018-03-01
|
Series: | Applied Sciences |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/497 |
_version_ | 1811216722594627584 |
---|---|
author | Xuanming Zhang Haixia Liu Long Li |
author_facet | Xuanming Zhang Haixia Liu Long Li |
author_sort | Xuanming Zhang |
collection | DOAJ |
description | A new wide-angle and polarization-insensitive metasurface (MS) instead of traditional antenna is built as the primary ambient energy harvester in this paper. The MS is a two-dimensional energy harvesting array that is composed of subwavelength electrical small ring resonator that is working at 2.5 GHz (LTE/WiFi). In the case of different polarization and incidence angles, we demonstrate the metasurface can achieve high harvesting efficiency of 90%. The fabricated prototype of 9 × 9 MS energy harvesting array is measured, and the experimental results validate that the proposed MS has a good performance more than 80% of energy harvesting efficiency for arbitrary polarization and wide-angle incident waves. The good agreement of the simulation with the experiment results verifies the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed MS structure, which will provide a new source of supply in wireless sensor networks (WSN). |
first_indexed | 2024-04-12T06:43:29Z |
format | Article |
id | doaj.art-29d18fa152294eb18ab83a356c4eba51 |
institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
issn | 2076-3417 |
language | English |
last_indexed | 2024-04-12T06:43:29Z |
publishDate | 2018-03-01 |
publisher | MDPI AG |
record_format | Article |
series | Applied Sciences |
spelling | doaj.art-29d18fa152294eb18ab83a356c4eba512022-12-22T03:43:39ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172018-03-018449710.3390/app8040497app8040497Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive MetasurfacesXuanming Zhang0Haixia Liu1Long Li2Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaKey Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaKey Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, ChinaA new wide-angle and polarization-insensitive metasurface (MS) instead of traditional antenna is built as the primary ambient energy harvester in this paper. The MS is a two-dimensional energy harvesting array that is composed of subwavelength electrical small ring resonator that is working at 2.5 GHz (LTE/WiFi). In the case of different polarization and incidence angles, we demonstrate the metasurface can achieve high harvesting efficiency of 90%. The fabricated prototype of 9 × 9 MS energy harvesting array is measured, and the experimental results validate that the proposed MS has a good performance more than 80% of energy harvesting efficiency for arbitrary polarization and wide-angle incident waves. The good agreement of the simulation with the experiment results verifies the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed MS structure, which will provide a new source of supply in wireless sensor networks (WSN).http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/497metasurface (MS)energy harvestingwide-anglepolarization-insensitive |
spellingShingle | Xuanming Zhang Haixia Liu Long Li Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces Applied Sciences metasurface (MS) energy harvesting wide-angle polarization-insensitive |
title | Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces |
title_full | Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces |
title_fullStr | Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces |
title_full_unstemmed | Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces |
title_short | Electromagnetic Power Harvester Using Wide-Angle and Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces |
title_sort | electromagnetic power harvester using wide angle and polarization insensitive metasurfaces |
topic | metasurface (MS) energy harvesting wide-angle polarization-insensitive |
url | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/497 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT xuanmingzhang electromagneticpowerharvesterusingwideangleandpolarizationinsensitivemetasurfaces AT haixialiu electromagneticpowerharvesterusingwideangleandpolarizationinsensitivemetasurfaces AT longli electromagneticpowerharvesterusingwideangleandpolarizationinsensitivemetasurfaces |