Open AccessSolar cell stacked dual‐polarised patch antenna for 5.8 GHz band WiMAX network
Author(s) -
Yurduseven O.,
Smith D.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2013.2451
Subject(s) - patch antenna , microstrip antenna , wimax , microstrip , antenna (radio) , optoelectronics , materials science , multi band device , optics , electrical engineering , physics , telecommunications , engineering , wireless
A novel combination of a two‐port slant ± 45° dual‐polarised microstrip patch antenna with a polycrystalline silicon (poly‐Si) solar cell operating as an RF stacked parasitic patch element is presented and discussed for 5.8 GHz band polarisation diverse multifunctional WiMAX systems. To minimise the effect of the solar operation on the RF antenna performance, an effective DC/RF isolation circuit consisting of quarter‐wavelength microstrip transmission lines is demonstrated. The proposed solar patch provides identical E ‐plane and H ‐plane far‐field radiation patterns for +45° and −45° polarisations with a gain of 7.8 dBi and operates at the frequency band of 5.66–5.91 GHz.