Design and performance of micro-rectenna arrays for thermal energy harvesting.

Pan, Y.; Rosamond, M.C.; McDonald, A.; Partridge, T.; Cartwright, D.; Linfield, E.H.; Wood, D.; Balocco, C.

Abstract

We report on the design and performance of a micro-rectenna device for harvesting wasted thermal energy. As an individual rectenna exhibits low efficiency and output power, we designed and studied a focal plane array (FPA) on a single semiconductor chip. Our FPA could be used for more general energy-harvesting applications as well as for THz imaging.

Citation

Pan, Y., Rosamond, M., McDonald, A., Partridge, T., Cartwright, D., Linfield, E., …Balocco, C. (2015). Design and performance of micro-rectenna arrays for thermal energy harvesting. In 2015 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz) (1-2). https://doi.org/10.1109/irmmw-thz.2015.7327724

• Conference Name: 2015 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz)
• Conference Location: Hong Kong
• Online Publication Date: Nov 12, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2016
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1-2
• Book Title: 2015 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/irmmw-thz.2015.7327724
• Additional Information: Date of Conference: 23-28 August 2015