A transparent meshed solar monopole antenna for UWB applications

Okan Yurduseven; Dave Smith; Michael Elsdon

doi:10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902233

A transparent meshed solar monopole antenna for UWB applications

Okan Yurduseven, Dave Smith, Michael Elsdon

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This paper demonstrates the integration of a transparent meshed circular monopole antenna with a polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) solar cell operating as an RF ground plane in addition to its photovoltaic function. While the meshed circular monopole with the feed line printed on a clear acrylic substrate placed upon the poly-Si solar cell offers an optical transparency of 91%, it is demonstrated that the meshed transparent monopole proposes similar radiation characteristics in comparison with its conventional solid counterpart and operates across a measured frequency band of 2.33-10.8 GHz covering UWB applications with an average broadband gain of 4.1 dBi. The proposed meshed solar monopole antenna generates a DC power output of 65.5 mW and operates with a measured adequate solar efficiency of 13.1%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2145-2149
Journal	Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902233
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Monopole antenna
UWB
meshed antenna
solar antenna

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