Design of Simple Integrated Rectenna

DESIGN OF SIMPLE INTEGRATED RECTENNA FOR GREEN ENERGY HARVESTING

TAN SHI YIING

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA
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Author’s full name : Date of birth Title : :

Tan Shi Yiing ________________________________________________ 3 October 1988 ________________________________________________ Design of Simple Integrated Rectenna for ________________________________________________ Green Energy Harvesting ________________________________________________ rd Academic Session :

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DESIGN OF SIMPLE INTEGRATED RECTENNA FOR GREEN ENERGY HARVESTING

TAN SHI YIING

A report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical – Telecommunications)

Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

JULY 2012

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I declare that this thesis entitled “DESIGN OF SIMPLE INTEGRATED RECTENNA FOR GREEN ENERGY HARVESTING” is the result of my own research except as cited in the references. The thesis has been accepted for any degree and is not concurrently submitted in candidature of any other degree.

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: : : TAN SHI YIING 6th JULY 2012

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Dedicated to my beloved parents

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ABSTRACT

As the number of portable communication devices is increasing tremendously, the design of low profile communications system is in high demand nowadays. The size of antenna can be designed with many kinds of miniaturization techniques. This thesis presents the design of a fractal patch microstrip antenna and a simple rectifying circuit. The antenna is a miniaturized first iteration Koch fractal island patch at 2.45 GHz ISM band (WiFi, RFID, Bluetooth, etc). It is intended for a rectenna which is used to harvest electric energy from bountiful the unused microwave RF signals into DC

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