Abstract

Developing a polarization insensitive, omnidirectional, and ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna is highly desired for improving the utilization of freely available electromagnetic (EM) radiation energy. In this study, we have designed an UWB antenna based on tapered flower petals and numerically analyzed to show that it is a promising candidate for energy harvesting applications in the infrared (IR) to UV–visible regime. The impacts of design strategy and parameters on the absorption performance are studied numerically. The antenna shows a high performance in both bandwidth and absorptivity (average absorption of 84.5% spanning a broad range from 25 to 800 THz) under normal incidence of plane waves. To get a better understanding behind such high and UWB absorption mechanism, we investigated the electric field (E-field) distribution over the structure. The antenna also generates less than 5% absorption deviation between normal to 45° incident angle and 0.05% absorption deviation between 0° and 90° polarizations for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes. This new design aspect and the numerical findings unfolds the new direction for numerous EM wideband applications such as THz technology, photo detection, bolometric sensing, camouflaging, spectral imaging, and ambient EM energy harvesting applications.

Details

Title
Design of an ultra-wideband omnidirectional and polarization insensitive flower petal antenna for potential ambient electromagnetic energy harvesting applications
Author
Wang, Wei-Chih 1 ; Garu Prabir 2 

 National Tsing Hua University, Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC (GRID:grid.38348.34) (ISNI:0000 0004 0532 0580); National Tsing Hua University, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC (GRID:grid.38348.34) (ISNI:0000 0004 0532 0580); University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, Seattle Washington, USA (GRID:grid.34477.33) (ISNI:0000000122986657); University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seattle Washington, USA (GRID:grid.34477.33) (ISNI:0000000122986657) 
 National Tsing Hua University, Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC (GRID:grid.38348.34) (ISNI:0000 0004 0532 0580) 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2649432163
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.