Design of a Compact Solar Cell Meshed Antenna for WLAN/WIMAX Application

Patch antenna is a low-profile antenna that has a number of advantages, low cost, light weight, easy to feed and their attractive radiation characteristics. For a WiMAX communication system, a patch antenna which operates at 2.76 GHz frequency band was presented in this work. The hybrid system solar cell antenna allows energy recovery as well as RF Transmission. A simulation process, with MATLAB, is used to determine the electrical power collected by the studied system as a photovoltaic cell. As a antenna, parameters such as directivity, gain, radiation pattern and radiated power were studied. Simulation results, showed a resonance frequency of the antenna at 2.76 GHz with a reflection coefficient of -18.64 dB and a gain of 6.58 dBi. Thereafter, an optical rectenna with a solar cell antenna was proposed and studied. INDEX TERMS Pactch antenna, Solar cell, RF, DC, WLAN/WiMAX

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