A Ku-Band Microwave Wireless Energy Transmission System Based on Rectifier Diode

Biao Hu; Yihong Zhou; Hao Li; Haiyang Wang; Tianming Li; Mohamed Helaoui; Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2942562

IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

A Ku-Band Microwave Wireless Energy Transmission System Based on Rectifier Diode

Biao Hu,
Yihong Zhou,
Hao Li,
Haiyang Wang,
Tianming Li,
Mohamed Helaoui,
Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

Affiliations

Biao Hu: ORCiD; School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Yihong Zhou: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Hao Li: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Haiyang Wang: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Tianming Li: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Mohamed Helaoui: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Fadhel M. Ghannouchi: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2942562
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 135556 – 135562

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This paper demonstrates a Ku-band medium and long distance microwave wireless energy transmission system based on the rectifier diode. The transmitting compact Cassegrain antenna with an aperture of 1.5m forms a more centralized and uniform 2m x 2m field zone, which has more than 80% transmission efficiency. According to the distribution of receiving field, the multiple ways synthesizers connected to rectangular patch arrays are designed. And the results predict that the receiving efficiency of the antenna is directly related to the performance of the system, which reaches 50%, not including the possible insert loss. Besides, the Ku-band rectifying circuit is optimized and measured, and the comparing results show that the practical rectifier diode can obtain more than 40% conversion efficiency at the operating frequency of 12.75GHz. Finally, the microwave wireless energy transmission system is designed, and it finally obtains 4% DC-DC conversion efficiency at a distance of 60m, which is likely to be used in unmanned aerial vehicle hovering charging system, robot charging while working, isolated island wireless power supplying and wireless charging of various sensors.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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