A wideband slot antenna for RF energy harvesting
摘要
This study details the design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of a compact wideband slot antenna tailored for ambient radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) applications. The design incorporates an inverted T-shaped stub along with dual E-shaped stubs embedded within a rectangular slot, excited by an extended T-shaped microstrip feed line. The antenna, fabricated on an FR-4 substrate with a relative permittivity of 4.4, exhibits simulated and measured impedance bandwidth (BW) of 1.10 GHz and 1.05 GHz ranging from 0.87 to 1.97 GHz and 0.84 to 1.89 GHz both defined at the − 10 dB respectively. It attains a peak realized gain of simulated (measured) 4.97 dBi (4.86 dBi), all within a compact footprint of 0.59