Research Article

Analysis and Synthesis of Double Negative Dielectric Media Rectenna Systems for Ambient Microwave Energy Harvesting

Figure 13

“Dipole 1” in front of the DNG and in free space: Vocave (mVolts) values, calculated over the UMTS band, at the open-circuited input terminals of the dipole, versus the direction of arrival (DoA) of the incoming wave. DoA is considered with respect z-axis.