A Compact 2.45-GHz Broadband Rectenna Using Grounded Coplanar Waveguide

Abstract

This letter presents a compact 2.45 GHz broadband rectenna using the grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW). A new broadband slot antenna fed by GCPW with a high gain of 10 dBi and a wide half-power beamwidth of 60 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">°</sup> is designed as the receiving antenna. By designing an input and an output impedance match network, a compact GCPW rectifying circuit based on the voltage doubler principle is proposed, which has broadband performance and is easy to be integrated with the novel GCPW antenna. The receiving antenna and the rectifying circuit are simulated and measured. The measured results of the rectenna agree well with those of the rectifying circuit, which validate the effectiveness of the design. The microwave-direct current (mw-dc) conversion efficiencies of the rectenna keep higher than 50% within the band from 2.2 to 2.6 GHz at 13 dBm received power on a 900Ω load, and the highest efficiency is 72.5%. This rectenna has good performances of broadband, high mw-dc efficiency and compact structure.