Broad band metamaterial absorber based on wheel resonators with lumped elements for microwave energy harvesting

2018-05-01
KARAASLAN, MUHARREM
BAĞMANCI, MEHMET
ÜNAL, EMİN
AKGÖL, OĞUZHAN
ALTINTAŞ, OLCAY
Sabah, Cumali
A new metamaterial absorber structure is designed and characterized both numerically and experimentally for microwave energy harvesting applications. The proposed structure includes four wheel resonators with different dimensions, from which the overall response of the structure can then be obtained by summing all the overlapping frequency responses corresponding to each dimension. The essential operation frequency range of the wheels is selected in such a way that the energy used in wireless communications and found within the environment that we live is absorbed. The dimensions are obtained using parametric study and genetic algorithm to realize wideband absorption response. When the simulation and measurement results are taken into account, it is observed that the metamaterial absorber based harvester has potential to absorb and convert microwave energy with an absorption ratio lying within the range of 80 and 99% for the frequency band of 3-5.9 and 7.3-8 GHz. The conversion efficiency of the structure as a harvester is found to be greater than 0.8 in the interval of 2-5 GHz. Furthermore, the incident angle and polarization dependence of the wheel resonator based metamaterial absorber and harvester is also investigated and it is observed that the structure has both polarization and incident angle independent frequency response with good absorption characteristics in the entire working frequency band. Hence, the suggested design having good absorption, polarization and angle independent characteristics with wide bandwidth is a potential candidate for future energy harvester using wireless communication frequency band.
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

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Citation Formats
M. KARAASLAN, M. BAĞMANCI, E. ÜNAL, O. AKGÖL, O. ALTINTAŞ, and C. Sabah, “Broad band metamaterial absorber based on wheel resonators with lumped elements for microwave energy harvesting,” OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, pp. 0–0, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68221.