Patch Antenna on a Solar Cell for Satellite Communications

Baccouch, Chokri; Bouchouicha, Dhaou; Sakli, Hèdi; Aguili, Taoufik

doi:10.15866/irecap.v6i6.9807

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“…Approach. This work builds on previous work [10][11][12][13] in which we investigated and designed new patch antennas based on solar cells. However, in this work, antennas will be dedicated to both energy harvesting and data transmission via RF wave emission and reception (Figure 1).…”

Section: Antenna Requirements and Solarmentioning

confidence: 91%

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Adaptive Ku‐Band Solar Rectenna for Internet‐of‐Things‐ (IoT)‐over‐Satellite Applications

Baccouch

Bahhar

Sakli

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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The emergence of new IoT applications in regional and remote areas has increased the need for a global IoT connectivity beyond existing terrestrial network coverage. However, in many cases, it is not economically viable to build a dedicated terrestrial network to cover these remote areas due to population sparsity and the lack of business case. In this paper, we propose a framework for designing a solar rectenna for IoT-over-satellite applications using nanosatellites. Utilizing such a framework will allow valuable radio spectrum resources to be shared between satellite and terrestrial users. Thus, the autonomous power supply of these objects becomes a big challenge. Indeed, the harvest of solar energy and the conversion of RF energy into electric voltage are a hot topic. Our contribution consists in offering a solar rectenna system to collect solar and RF energy as well as the radio frequency transmission. A parametric study is carried out to follow the influence on the performance of this system. A topology of rectifying circuits is proposed in the present work. The parametric study has shown that the efficiency RF/DC conversion can reach 23.2% for an input power of 5 dBm and a load resistance of 2 k Ω . To ensure the satellite communication of IoT-connected autonomous objects, this system is operated in the X or Ku band.

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Section: Antenna Requirements and Solarmentioning

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“…A new device for both energy harvesting and RF transmission is shown in Figure 3. The solar cell antenna architecture has been proposed and well studied in our previous research work [10][11][12][13][14][15]. The solar cell antenna structure proposed is given in Figure 4.…”

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Adaptive Ku‐Band Solar Rectenna for Internet‐of‐Things‐ (IoT)‐over‐Satellite Applications

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Bahhar

Sakli

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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“…Many methods to realize high-performance antennas integrated with solar cells have been studied, but the problem of surface limitation has not resolved with the method of integration [6][7][8]. These return to the solar cell placement above the antenna element or underneath the antenna element.…”

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Butterfly design mesh antenna of optical rectenna for S-band communication systems

Baccouch

Bahhar

Sakli

et al. 2021

IJECE

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A novel optical rectenna design is presented in this paper to operate in S-band communication. We propose a new method of combining antennas and solar cells to collect and transmit optical and radio frequency signals respectively. In this work, we determined the electrical power collected, it can be used for the polarization of a diode or a low-noise amplifier in a receiver block thus simulation results provides a gain of 6.74 dBi at 2.9 GHz with an effective return loss of -33.62 dB and radiated power of 7.08 mW. These good results make it possible to use the antenna particularly in point-to-point communication systems. A three topologies of rectifying circuits are proposed in the present work. The parametric study has been shown that the efficiency RF/DC conversion can reach 66% for an input power of 10 dBm and a load resistance of 3 kΩ.

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“…For such integration, a high optical transparency of the patch antenna is required from the solar cells point of view, since solar cells require sufficient sunlight to generate adequate electrical power. On the other hand, the antenna must have at least acceptable electrical properties at the same time so that it can radiate correctly and efficiently [7][8] and [9][10][11].…”

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“…A mathematical model that we have already studied to minimize the power losses of the solar cell antenna and improve the conversion efficiency as a solar cell [13][14]. Optimization of the maximum electrical power collected as a function of finger width was determined.…”

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Leaf-shaped solar cell antenna for Energy Harvesting and RF Transmission in ku-band

Baccouch¹,

Sakli²,

Bouchouicha³

et al. 2017

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Patch Antenna on a Solar Cell for Satellite Communications

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Adaptive Ku‐Band Solar Rectenna for Internet‐of‐Things‐ (IoT)‐over‐Satellite Applications

Adaptive Ku‐Band Solar Rectenna for Internet‐of‐Things‐ (IoT)‐over‐Satellite Applications

Butterfly design mesh antenna of optical rectenna for S-band communication systems

Leaf-shaped solar cell antenna for Energy Harvesting and RF Transmission in ku-band

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