Development of a New Slit-Slotted Shaped Microstrip Antenna Array for Rectenna Application

摘要

—These paper presents a new 3X3 array design using a microstrip patch array antenna to operate at 2.45GHz. The aim of this antenna array construction is to obtain high directivity. The element of the array is microstrip square patch antenna using V-shaped symmetric-slit along with rectangular slot in diagonal direction at the centre of square patch radiator to achieve the circularly polarized radiation and each element is fed by inset feed. The size and feed position of the single microstrip square patch is determined through the theoretical design and CST microwave studio software simulation. Based on which an array of six elements with equal sizes and equal spacing is designed on a planar substrate. The simulation results in this paper can be used as design reference for the practical design of the rectenna.