Fig 1.
General block diagram of a hybrid reconfigurable rectenna.
Table 1.
Performance of the proposed mathematical model antennas.
Fig 2.
Hybrid reconfigurable antenna designed geometry.
(a) Proposed Hybrid Model. (b) fabricated prototype.
Table 2.
Nomenclature of important parameters.
Fig 3.
PIN diode structure (a) HFSS PIN Diode Symbol. (b) Ideal equivalent circuit models of PIN diode working at 28/38GHz ON state, OFF state (c) Step Response of RLC switch for oscillation.
Table 3.
Simulated and measured variation of antenna design parameters with substrate thickness at 28GHz.
Table 4.
Mean, variance and standard deviation simulated and measured variation of antenna design parameters with substrate thickness at 28GHz.
Table 5.
Cases to be observed for analysis of hybrid reconfiguration mechanism.
Fig 4.
S11 result when both S1 and S2 are at ON position.
Fig 5.
VSWR result when both S1 and S2 are at ON position.
Fig 6.
Simulated and measured results of P1_28 & P2_38 patches AR at y = 1.2 mm.
Fig 7.
Simulated and measured polarization results showing radiation pattern of both 28GHz and 38GHz on XOY-E-Plane.
Table 6.
Power harvested at different radiation modes.
Fig 8.
Comparison of Circuit Design and HFSS Design for the same structure when P1_28 GHz is active.
Table 7.
Comparison table of published literature.