Dual Band a-Si:H Solar-Slot Antenna for 2.4/5.2GHz WLAN Applications
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Shynu, S. V.; Ons, Maria J. Roo; Ammann, Max J. (School of Electronic and Communications Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin-8, Ireland)
McCormack, Sarah; Norton, Brian (Dublin Energy Lab, Focas Institute, Dublin-8, Ireland)
Abstract:
A simple and compact design of solar-slot antenna for dual band 2.4/5.2GHz WLAN applications is proposed in this paper. The design makes use of amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells in polyimide substrate with embedded twin H-shaped slot structure to generate dual resonant frequencies. A T-shaped microstripline feed is used to excite the twin H-slot in the a-Si:H solar cell. The measured impedance bandwidth of the proposed solar antenna are 6.7% (165MHz) centred at 2.465GHz and 4.1% (212MHz) at 5.11GHz. The measured gain at 2.4 and 5.2 GHz are 3.5dBi and 3.1dBi respectively.