Research Article

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

Table 1

Vocave values at the open-circuited input terminals of the dipoles. Average values over the UMTS band. DoA: 0 deg.

With DNGIn free space

1 dipole
Dipole 1−33.64 dBVolt−37 dBVolt
Dipole 3−34.35 dBVolt−37 dBVolt
4 dipoles
Dipole 1−34.98 dBVolt−37.69 dBVolt
Dipole 3−35.49 dBVolt−37.35 dBVolt