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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT, HIGHLY EFFICIENT RECTENNA FOR WIRELESS POWER HARVESTING OF 2.45 GHz FOR LIGHTLY POWERED
WIRELESS TAGS
MUHAMAD SAMSURIA BIN ABDUL DAIM
This report is submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirement for Award of Bachelor of Electronic Engineering (Wireless Communication) With Honours
Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
JUNE 2015
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UNIVERSTI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA
FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK DAN KEJURUTERAAN KOMPUTER
BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS LAPORAN
PROJEK SARJANA MUDA II
Tajuk Projek :
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT, HIGHLY EFFICIENT RECTENNA
FOR WIRELESS POWER HARVESTING OF 2.45 GHz FOR
LIGHTLY POWERED WIRELESS TAGS
Sesi Pengajian : 1 4 / 1 5
Saya MUHAMAD SAMSURIA BIN ABDUL DAIM mengaku membenarkan Laporan Projek Sarjana Muda ini disimpan di Perpustakaan dengan syarat-syarat kegunaan seperti berikut:
1. Laporan adalah hakmilik Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.
2. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan untuk tujuan pengajian sahaja.
3. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan laporan ini sebagai bahan pertukaran antara institusi
pengajian tinggi.
4. Sila tandakan ( √ ) :
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RAHSIA RASMI 1972)
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“I hereby declare that this report is the result of my own work except for quotes as cited in the references.”
Signature :
Author : Muhamad Samsuria bin Abdul Daim
Date : 15 June 2015
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“I hereby declare that I have read this report and in my opinion this report is sufficient in terms of the scope and quality for the award of the Bachelor of Electronic Engineering
(Wireless Communication) With Honours.”
Signature :
Author : Dr. Mohammed Saeed Jawad
Date : 15 June 2014
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, I am thankful to Allah S.W.T for giving me guidance and strength
internally and externally to enable me to finish my final year project successfully. I would
like to convey my greatest gratitude to my dearest supervisor Dr. Mohamed Saeed Jawad
for his guidance, brilliant ideas and his expertise in this field are sincerely appreciated.
I also want to express my special thanks for my lovely dad and my lovely family because
they always support me and their advice become an inspiration and strength to me in
completing this research successfully. Lastly, I dedicate a valuable thankful to my
classmates, friends and colleagues at this university who always support me directly or
indirectly.
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ABSTRACT
Power source in battery nowadays have become part of human life. The short
lifetime of battery sometime can be a problem. Even though nowadays, there are many
others technique of energy harvesting such as solar panel, wind energy and other
renewable source, but it is not convenient to use large power source to power up low
power level application such as sensors and wireless tags. Therefore solution of other
energy harvesting that is small yet efficient must be achieved. Rectenna is a solution to
create small energy harvesting tools that can be applied to low power level application.
Rectanna is basically a device that used to capture and convert signal into DC power and
used as receiving terminal. Rectenna is combining of rectifying circuit and antenna. Both
of rectifying circuit and antenna design will determine the overall performance of
rectenna. Proposal of this project is to harvest enough energy that can power up low level
application such as wireless tags at 2.45 GHz. Rectenna will be design using CST studio
software and fabricated on FR4 board. RF Schootky diode will be used to construct
rectifying circuit. The matching of the Schootky diode will be in stub matching form
which will be design on FR4 board. The horn antenna will be used as a transmitter that
resonate at 2.45 GHz for the input power level at -20dBm to 20dBm. Rectenna then will
be used to convert the signal into DC voltage.
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ABSTRAK
Pada masa kini, sumber kuasa di dalam bateri menjadi sebahagian daripada
kehidupan manusia. Jangka hayat yang pendek kadang-kadang boleh menjadi masalah.
Walaupun begitu, terdapat banyak lagi teknik penuaian tenaga seperti panel solar, tenaga
angin dan sumber yang boleh diperbaharui yang lain, namun ia tidak mudah untuk
meningkatkan aplikasi tahap kuasa yang rendah seperti sensor dan tag tanpa wayar dengan
menggunakan sumber kuasa yang besar. Oleh itu, penyelesaian penuaian tenaga lain yang
kecil tetapi berkesan haruslah dicapai. Rectenna adalah penyelesaian untuk mewujudkan
alat penuaian bertenaga kecil yang boleh digunakan untuk aplikasi kuasa tahap rendah.
Rectenna pada dasarnya adalah alat yang digunakan untuk menangkap dan menukar
isyarat ke dalam kuasa DC dan digunakan sebagai pangkalan penerima. Rectenna adalah
gabungan daripada litar penerus dan antenna. Kedua-dua litar penerus dan reka bentuk
antenna akan menentukan keseluruhan prestasi rectenna. Cadangan projek ini adalah
untuk menuai tenaga yang cukup untuk meningkatkan aplikasi tahap rendah contohnya
tag tanpa wayar pada 2.45GHz. Rectenna akan di hasilkan dengan menggunakan CST
Studio Software dan fabrikasi pada papan FR4. Diod jenis Schottky akan digunakan untuk
membina litar penerus. Padanan daripada diod Schootky akan berada dalam bentuk
puntung (stub), yang hampir sama yang akan direka bentuk di papan FR4. Horn antenna
akan digunakan sebagai pemancar yang bergema di 2.45GHz pada tahap kuasa input di
2dBm hingga 20dBm. Rectenna kemudiannya akan digunakan untuk menukar isyarat
kepada voltan DC.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
PROJECT’S TITLE i
CONFIRMATION FORM OF THESIS
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DECLARATION iii- iv
DEDICATION v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT vi
ABSTRACT vii
ABSTRAK viii
TABLE OF CONTENT ix
LIST OF TABLES xii
LIST OF FIGURES xiii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv
LIST OF SYMBOL xvi
LIST OF APPENDICES xvii
I INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Project introduction 1-3
1.1.1 Overview of Rectenna 3
1.2 Objectives 4
1.3 Problem statement 4-5
1.4 Project Scope 5-6
1.5 project Significance 6-7
1.6 Methodology 7-9
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1.7 Thesis outline 9-10
II LITERATURE REVIEW 11
2.1 Introduction to Rectenna 11-12
2.1.2 Antenna Design 12
2.1.3 Antenna parameter 13
2.1.3.1 Return Loss 13
2.1.3.2 Radiation Pattern 13
2.1.3.3 Gain 14
2.1.3.4 Bandwidth 14
2.1.3.5 Impedance Matching 14
2.2 Rectifying circuit 15-16
2.3 Previous study analysis. 16-21
III METHODOLOGY 22-25
3.1 Materials
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3.1.1 FR-4 board 26
3.1.2 Schottky diode 26-27
3.1.3 Load 27
3.2 Equipment 27
3.2.1 Network Analyzer 28
3.2.2 RF cable 28
3.2.3 Horn antenna 28
3.2.4 Digital multimeter 29
3.3 Design of antenna 30-33
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3.4 Parametric study 34
3.5 Design of rectifier circuit 34-35
3.6 Experimental Setup 36
IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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4.1 Introduction 37
4.2 Results for antenna 38
4.2.1 Parametric study result 39-41
4.3 Simulation and measurement results
of the antenna
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4.3.1 Return loss 41-42
4.3.2 Bandwidth 42-43
4.3.3 Gain and Directivity 44-45
4.3.4 Radiation Pattern 45-47
4.3.5 Impedance matching and
surface current
47-48
4.4 Measurement of output power of
Rectenna energy
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4.4.1 Simulation result of the rectenna 48-49
4.4.2 measurement result of the
rectenna at different distance
49-52
4.4.3 Analysis on rectenna 52-53
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V CONCLUSION 54
5.1 Introduction 54
5.2 Conclusion 54-55
5.3 Recommendations and Future Works 55-56
REFERENCES 57-60
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LIST OF TABLES
NO TITLE PAGE
1.0 Comparison of rectifier 18
2.0 Comparison of the previous study findings 21
3.0 Board characteristic 26
3.1 Dimension of microstrip patch antenna 31
3.2 Dimension and parameter of antenna 34
4.0 Comparison of antenna design 38
4.0.1 Comparison between simulation and measurement of antenna
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4.1 Output voltage at 25 cm 50
4.2 Output voltage at 50 cm 50
4.3 Output voltage at 75 cm 51
4.4 Output voltage at 100 cm 51
4.5 Comparison of the measured voltage output of the
rectenna
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LIST OF FIGURES
NO TITLE PAGE
1.0 Rectenna basic component in block diagram 5
1.1 Flow chart of designing process and method
when carrying the project.
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2.0 Single stage Dickson voltage charge pump
rectifier design
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3.0 The flow chart of the project 23-24
3.1 Figure 3.1 shows Schottky Diode HSMS 2860
B configuration
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3.2 RF resistor used in the design 27
3.3 Network analyzer 28
3.4 Horn antenna 29
3.5 Digital multimeter 29
3.6.0 Options that provided in CST Studio Suite 2014 30
3.6.1 The workspace of the software 30
3.6.2 The view of the antenna 31
3.7.1 Stub matching 35
3.7.2 Design of rectenna 35
3.8.0 Measurement setup 36
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4.0
(a), (b), (c),
(d), (e) , (f)
Parametric study of Wg, W and Ls 39-40
4.3.0 Measured return loss for antenna 42
4.3.1 Simulation result of return loss 42
4.3.2 Simulation bandwidth 43
4.3.3 Result of measurement and three markers is
added to calculate the bandwidth achieved.
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4.3.4 Gain of antenna 45
4.3.5 Directivity of antenna 45
4.3.6
(a), (b) and
(c)
Radiation pattern of antenna in simulation 46
4.3.7 The impedance achieve for this antenna 48
4.4.0 Simulation result of the desired rectifier 49
4.4.1 The antenna is tested at distance of 25 cm 49
4.4.2 Fabricated rectenna 53
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LIST OF ABBREVATIONS
RECTENNA - Rectifying antenna PCB - Printed circuit board VHF - Very high frequency GSM - Global system for mobile RFID - Radio Frequency Identification ISM - Industrial, Scientific and Medical IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering FR-4 - Flame retardant ADS - Advance Design System
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LIST OF SYMBOLS
λ - Wavelength Ω - Ohms ℇeff - Effective permitivity ℇr - Effective dieletric constant Z - Impedance f - Frequency c - Speed of light; 3 × 108
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This chapter will give an overview about the project as project background,
project objectives, project scope, project methodology and summary of the project. This
chapter will explain briefly about project details.
1.1 Project introduction
Nowadays, there are many items which can be used to harvest energy as a source
including RF signal and microwave. In most area, wireless signal such as microwave and
RF signal is mostly used for internet surfing, but these signal can be converted to DC
voltage using proper tools and technique.
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There is an active research in investigating several methods significantly
extracting ambient energy from surrounding and convert it into electrical energy [1] for
energizing low power wireless sensors which can get the required power from rectenna
circuit. Indeed, RF energy scavenging from the ambient will become more beneficial at
future of microelectronic which will be flexible of green electronics devices due to self-
powered wireless sensor and energy autonomous [2]. In fact, there are many energy from
external sources such as solar power, magnetic, vibration and RF energy. The advantage
harvested RF energy from the ambient because the energy is feely available in space.
Thus, RF energy is captured by a receiving antenna and rectified into a usable DC voltage.
The application of project is to use rectenna to convert wireless signal into DC
(direct current) and power up low power application such as wireless tags. Rectenna
received/captured signal which is transmitted from the transmitter using horn antenna at
a frequency of 2.45 GHz. This project is carry out to develop and design a compact and
high efficiency rectenna for wireless power harvesting of 2.45 GHz for lightly powered
wireless tags.
RF energy harvesting system is made up of microwave antenna, prerectification
filter, rectifying circuit and DC pass filter that rectifies incoming electromagnetic waves
into DC current. The rectifying circuit can be in any types like full-wave bridge rectifier
or as a single shunt full-wave rectifier [5][6].
In order to obtain an optimum power transfer, a low pass filter between the antenna
and rectifier will be used. The purpose of using this filter is to achieve impedance
matching between them. Then, after signal is rectified, a DC low pass filter will be used
to smooth the output DC voltage and current by attenuating the high frequencies
harmonics that present in the RF signals or generated by the highly nonlinear rectifying
process itself. The best is collecting the maximum power before deliver it to the rectifying
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diode, and then to suppress the harmonics generated by the diode that reradiate from the
antenna as the power lost [6].
Rectenna with DC power conversion could provide a new revelation for power
source technology. Generally, communication devices have omni-directional radiation
pattern of antennas that propagate RF energy in most direction thus maximizes the
coverage for mobile applications. The energy harvesting system design promotes a
promising future in low power consumer of electronics devices and wireless sensor
networks.
1.1.1 Overview of Rectenna
The rectenna has been advancing in recent years, as the microwave integrated
circuit and monolithic microware integrated technologies become more mature allowing
for high level integration. The rectenna term is actually a combining of an antenna and a
non-linear rectifying circuit where these two element integrated into one single circuit.
Rectenna is capable to receive and detect microwave power and convert the signal into dc
voltage at high frequencies [1]. Rectenna which can capture and convert electromagnetic
power to electric power plays an important role in free space wireless power
transmission(WPT).This feature is an attractive solution to supply a node in wireless
sensor network(WSN) or the electronic circuit of the wireless tags such as radio frequency
identification (RFID) tags. The development of rectenna focused on its efficiency for great
power reception and conversion [2].
The crucial factor of the rectenna is antenna itself. The frequency selected for
antenna is 2.45 GHz which means antenna is able to work in that frequency. Frequency
2.45 GHz is selected as operating frequency as to get high frequency. Rectifying circuit
design and the diode use also affect the performance of the rectenna. Rectifying circuit
consisted Schootky diode and the load resistor for power measurement.
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1.2 Objectives
The objective of this project is to design a highly efficient rectenna as small size
and relatively high gain enough to power up wireless tags from received signal energy.
Another objectives is to evaluate the performance of the proposed rectenna in software
simulation as well as experimented analysis and testing of the rectenna. This rectenna
design will convert captured signal into DC power which is use to power a low power
level device such as wireless tags and sensor. Rectenna also can contribute in in reduction
of waste (in this case: battery) and can be develop as a green technology. Due to the green
technology that highly demands these days, the project can be used to generated new
power and rectenna can be used as alternative power source in future.
1.3 Problem statement
The research regarding rectenna had been done long time ago, but there are certain
problem that can be improve for better performance. For example , Rakesh Kumar Yadev
and etc in their journal stated that broadband and large arrays antenna enables to receive
high signal however a mismatch of polarization arises between antenna size and radiation
gain. S. Riviere, F. Alicalapa, and etc in their journal of compact rectenna only achieved
efficiency of 34% using simple aperture coupled patch antenna at low power level of -
10dBm and to find a correct match between antenna and the rectifying circuit is an issue.
It is clearly find that still need for improvement on the size of antenna, efficiency and the
mismatch of the circuit
The problem of this research can be stated as to develop a compact but have high
efficiency. Other problem of the research is ambient frequency of 2.45 GHz must have
enough power to produce high output DC yet small size rectenna. This project is
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undertaken as a solution for wireless energy harvesting without other source. This project
is also undertaken as a solution for problem reported in related journal about designing a
good antenna.
1.4 Project Scope
The scope of this project is to find a solution to convert the energy from wireless signal
to DC power and to increase the efficiency of power conversion. This project is a forecast
on the wireless harvesting for low level application device. Frequency of interest is at 2.45
GHz. This project involve in designing antenna and rectifying circuit component of
proposed rectenna. The implementation of this work is first implemented in software as
simulation in CST studio.
Figure 1.0 shows rectenna basic component in block diagram
The antenna is used to capture the input incoming signal and delivered to the
rectifier circuit. The rectifier circuit which consist filter and Schottky diode is use to
convert the voltage that in form of AC to DC. The properties of diode determine the
overall performance.
The Schottky diode is chosen for rectifying circuit because that diode have lower
built-in voltage that would realized a higher rectifying efficiency. The function of filter in
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rectifier circuit is to block any harmonic generated by diode and antenna. The filter is also
used to make the output smoother. However this project only involve in wireless energy
harvesting to power up low power level device such as wireless tags.
Antenna used in this project is microstrip patch antenna and rectifier circuit that is
used in this project is two stage Dickson charge pump voltage doubler circuit.
1.5 project Significance
This project gives high commercial values since the active research motivated for the
search for an alternative source of energy to power wireless sensor network especially at
2.45GHz frequency band (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) application that requires
sensors to be installed for a long duration where battery replacement is not practical. The
antenna design at this frequency band is important to work in for many applications. The
microstrip patch antenna design at different frequency band between [9] and [10] is
compare which is the operating frequency is at 5.25GHz and 2.4GHz in term of method
that they used. Researcher in [9] design microstrip patch antenna without slot whereby
researcher in [10], introduced additional slots to rectangular patch in order to achieve
single band functionality.
Then, the performances of antenna gain which same operating frequency of antenna
at 2.45GHz is analyzed between [23], [24], [25]. In [23], researcher proposed four planar
dipole elements placed in two parallel lines whereas in [24], a compact wideband
microstrip thinned array antenna using EBG substrate is designed. Then, researcher in
[25] proposed 2x1 linear antenna array , 4-element microstrip linear array antenna with
Butler matrix beamforming network is designed, analyzed and implemented using
microstrip technology in completely planar structure. The gain of antenna design by
researcher in [23], [24], and [25] is 7.5dBi, 8.2dBi, 9.186dBi for 2x1 linear antenna array.