This work aims to demonstrate the design and simulation of a Radio Frequency (RF) energy-harvesting circuit, from receiving antenna to the point of charge collection. The circuit employs a custom-designed antenna based around Koch fractal loops, selected for their small physical size, good multiband behaviour and ease of size scalability, as well as a power-efficient seven-element Greinacher rectification section designed to charge a super-capacitor or rechargeable battery for later use. Multiple frequency bands are tapped for energy and this aspect of the implementation was one on the main focus points. The bands targeted for harvesting in this thesis will be those that are the most readily available to the general Canadian population. These include Wi-Fi hotspots (and other 2.4GHz sources), as well as cellular (850MHz band), Personal Communications Services (1900MHz band) and WiMax (2.3GHz) network transmitters.

This work aims to demonstrate the design and simulation of a Radio Frequency (RF) energy-harvesting circuit, from receiving antenna to the point of charge collection. The circuit employs a custom-designed antenna based around Koch fractal loops, selected for their small physical size, good multiband behaviour and ease of size scalability, as well as a power-efficient seven-element Greinacher rectification section designed to charge a super-capacitor or rechargeable battery for later use. Multiple frequency bands are tapped for energy and this aspect of the implementation was one on the main focus points. The bands targeted for harvesting in this thesis will be those that are the most readily available to the general Canadian population. These include Wi-Fi hotspots (and other 2.4GHz sources), as well as cellular (850MHz band), Personal Communications Services (1900MHz band) and WiMax (2.3GHz) network transmitters.

This work aims to demonstrate the design and simulation of a Radio Frequency (RF) energy-harvesting circuit, from receiving antenna to the point of charge collection. The circuit employs a custom-designed antenna based around Koch fractal loops, selected for their small physical size, good multiband behaviour and ease of size scalability, as well as a power-efficient seven-element Greinacher rectification section designed to charge a super-capacitor or rechargeable battery for later use. Multiple frequency bands are tapped for energy and this aspect of the implementation was one on the main focus points. The bands targeted for harvesting in this thesis will be those that are the most readily available to the general Canadian population. These include Wi-Fi hotspots (and other 2.4GHz sources), as well as cellular (850MHz band), Personal Communications Services (1900MHz band) and WiMax (2.3GHz) network transmitters.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarceloRS.pdf: 2073600 bytes, checksum: e2793a47da1f2a66e002106dee02b631 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-29 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The characteristic properties of the fractal geometry have shown to be very useful for the construction of filters, frequency selective surfaces, synchronized circuits and antennas, enabling optimized solutions in many different commercial uses at microwaves frequency band. The fractal geometry is included in the technology of the microwave communication systems due to some interesting properties to the fabrication of compact devices, with higher performance in terms of bandwidth, as well as multiband behavior. This work describes the design, fabrication and measurement procedures for the Koch quasi-fractal monopoles, with 1 and 2 iteration levels, in order to investigate the bandwidth behavior of planar antennas, from the use of quasi-fractal elements printed on their rectangular patches. The electromagnetic effect produced by the variation of the fractal iterations and the miniaturization of the structures is analyzed. Moreover, a parametric study is performed to verify the bandwidth behavior, not only at the return loss but also in terms of SWR. Experimental results were obtained through the accomplishment of measurements with the aid of a vetorial network analyzer and compared to simulations performed using the Ansoft HFSS software. Finally, some proposals for future works are presented / As propriedades ?nicas da geometria fractal t?m-se mostrado bastante ?teis para a constru??o de filtros, superf?cies seletivas em freq??ncia, circuitos sintonizados e antenas, possibilitando solu??es otimizadas para uma variedade de usos comerciais na faixa de microondas. A geometria fractal est? inclu?da na tecnologia dos sistemas de comunica??o por microondas devido a algumas propriedades interessantes para a fabrica??o de dispositivos compactos, com desempenho superior em termos de largura de banda, bem como, comportamento multibanda. Neste trabalho, descrevem-se os procedimentos para o projeto, constru??o e medi??o de monopolos quase-fractais de Koch, com n?veis 1 e 2, projetados para se investigar o efeito produzido na largura de banda de antenas planares, a partir da utiliza??o de estruturas quase-fractais nos seus patches retangulares. O efeito eletromagn?tico da varia??o do n?vel dos fractais, bem como, da miniaturiza??o das estruturas, foram avaliados. Tamb?m foram realizadas parametriza??es com o intuito de se verificar o comportamento da largura de banda, tanto para a perda de retorno quanto para o SWR. Os resultados foram obtidos atrav?s de medi??es realizadas por um analisador de redes vetorial e por meio de simula??es no Ansoft HFSS. Algumas propostas para trabalhos futuros foram citadas

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RobsonHCM_TESE.pdf: 3686861 bytes, checksum: 9b78889548f4f5129d82c1a9c438aec4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / This work presents the development of new microwaves structures, filters and high gain antenna, through the cascading of frequency selective surfaces, which uses fractals D?rer and Minkowski patches as elements, addition of an element obtained from the combination of the other two simple the cross dipole and the square spiral. Frequency selective surfaces (FSS) includes a large area of Telecommunications and have been widely used due to its low cost, low weight and ability to integrate with others microwaves circuits. They re especially important in several applications, such as airplane, antennas systems, radomes, rockets, missiles, etc. FSS applications in high frequency ranges have been investigated, as well as applications of cascading structures or multi-layer, and active FSS. In this work, we present results for simulated and measured transmission characteristics of cascaded structures (multilayer), aiming to investigate the behavior of the operation in terms of bandwidth, one of the major problems presented by frequency selective surfaces. Comparisons are made with simulated results, obtained using commercial software such as Ansoft DesignerTM v3 and measured results in the laboratory. Finally, some suggestions are presented for future works on this subject / Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de novas estruturas de micro-ondas, filtros multi-banda ou banda larga, atrav?s do cascateamento de superf?cies seletivas em frequ?ncia, que usa patches fractais de D?rer pentagonal e Minkowski como elementos, al?m de um elemento obtido a partir da combina??o de outros dois mais simples que s?o o dipolo em cruz e a espira quadrada. Superf?cies seletivas em frequ?ncia (FSS) abrangem uma grande ?rea das Telecomunica??es e t?m sido largamente utilizadas devido a seu baixo custo, peso reduzido e possibilidade de se integrar com outros circuitos de micro-ondas. Elas s?o especialmente importantes em diversas aplica??es, como avi?es, sistemas de antenas, radomes, foguetes, m?sseis, etc. Aplica??es de FSS em faixas de frequ?ncia elevadas t?m sido investigadas, assim como aplica??es destas estruturas em cascata ou multicamadas, FSS ativas. Nesse trabalho, s?o apresentados resultados simulados e medidos para as caracter?sticas de transmiss?o de estruturas cascateadas (multicamadas), com intuito de investigar o comportamento do funcionamento em termos de largura de banda, um dos grandes problemas apresentados por superf?cies seletivas em frequ?ncia. S?o feitas compara??es entre resultados simulados, obtidos utilizando software comercial como Ansoft DesignerTM v3 e resultados medidos em laborat?rio. S?o apresentadas, ainda, sugest?es de continuidade do trabalho