Antennas for RF Energy Harvesting Applications: Design,

Development, and Challenges

Overview
Energy harvesting, also known as energy scavenging, is a method that converts surrounding ambient
electromagnetic (EM) waves into electrical energy. RF energy harvesting system is demanding research area of
interest in recent times. An RF energy harvester consists of a receiving antenna, matching, and rectifying circuits.
Receiving antenna converts the input EM waves into AC voltage and current. A rectifying circuit converts the EM
waves into a DC power. The antenna in RF energy harvesting systmes are instigated in the receiver side for receiving
EM waves from the various ambient RF sources, which are broadly available in the surrounding like digital TV
broadcasting (500-MHz band), mobile phone services (UHF-band down link), and several other wireless systems.
Research on RF energy harvesting is going on in several areas such as low power wireless sensors, RFID (radio
frequency identification) tags, and biotelemetry.
With the advances and popularity of wireless communication devices, large amount of abundant RF energy
from surrounding sources are scattered in our environment. Using an appropriate antenna, these EM waves can
be converted into electrical energy. Linearly polarized antenna receives only noise signals when the receiving
antenna is not aligned with the transmitting antenna. The ambient EM waves exist in all sorts of orientation and
polarization, thus high performace circularly polarized antennas are preferred for RF energy harvesting
applications. A circularly polarized antenna is insensitive to the multi-path effects and is able to harness RF energy
regardless of the devices orientation. For energy harvesting systems, a circularly polarized antenna connected to
rectifier circuit is expected to convert RF to dc power which is independent of source polarization.

Course Duration: 13-17 November 2017

Place: Department of ECE, NIT Silchar, Assam, India
information Total Contact Hours: 12 hrs. in 5 days
Course contents Different type of antenna and rectenna structures will be discussed in details in this proposal
for RF energy harvesting applications. An overview of the antennas for RF energy harvesting
will be covered and the specifications for these antennas such as low profile, light weight,
compact size, polarization multiband, planar structure characteristics, some challenges in
antenna designing, are also discussed.
You should attend you are students (B.Tech./M.Tech./ MSc./Ph.D.), researchers and faculty members in all
if areas of engineering working on RF Energy Harvesting, Microwave, Antennas and allied
domains.
you are practicing engineers working on RF Energy Harvesting, Microwave, Antennas and
allied domains.
you are engineers/scientists from industries working in all areas of engineering including
R&D laboratories.
Registration fee Participants from abroad: USD 500
Industry/ Research Organizations: Rs. 10000/-
Academic Institutions
Faculty: Rs. 5000/-
External Students: Rs. 1000/-
Internal PG & PhD Students: Rs. 500/-
Internal UG Students: Nil
Note:
The above fee includes all instructional materials, computer use for tutorials, 24 hr. free
internet facility. The participants will be provided with single bedded shared
accommodation on payment basis.
Valid Identity card/bonafide letter is mandatory from the students
The Faculty
Dr. Nasimuddin is a scientist at the Institute
for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for
Science, Technology and Research
Singapore. He received his Bachelor Degree
in 1994 from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,
India, and Master Degree (Microwave
Electronics) and Ph.D. degree in 1998 and
2004, respectively, from the University of
Delhi, India. He has worked as a Senior
Research Fellow (1999-2003) in DST sponsored project on Optical Course Co-ordinator
Control of Passive Microwave Devices and Council of Scientific and
Dr. Taimoor Khan
Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, senior research
fellowship in Engineering Science for the project entitled Department of Electronics and
Investigations of microstrip antennas as a sensor for determination Communication Engineering
of complex dielectric constant of materials at Department of National Institute of Technology Silchar
Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as an Phone: +91-9411823416/
Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2004-2006) in awarded +91-8135048134
Discovery project grant from Australian Research Council for project Email: tkhan.giancourse@gmail.com
entitled Microwave sensor based on multilayered microstrip
patch/line resonators at the Macquarie University, Australia. He has For details, please click on:
http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in
published 142 journal and conference technical papers on microstrip-
http://www.nits.ac.in/gian/gian.php
based microwave antennas and components. He has edited and
contributed a chapter to a book Microstrip antennas published in For registration, please click on:
2011 by InTech. His research interests include multilayered http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN/index
microstrip-based structures, millimeter-wave antennas, radio-
frequency identification reader antennas, Global Positioning
System/Global Navigation Satellite System, ultra-wideband antennas,
metamaterials-based microstrip antennas, satellite antennas, RF
energy harvesting systems, circularly polarized microstrip antennas,
and small antennas for TV white space communications.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society. He was awarded a senior research fellowship
from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of
India in Engineering Science (2001-2003); a Discovery Projects
fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2004-2006);
Singapore Manufacturing Federation Award (with project team) in
2014, and the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of
Radio Science (URSI) in 2005.

Course Co-ordinator
Dr. Taimoor Khan is working as Assistant
Professor in Department of Electronics and
Communication Engineering at National
Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India.
His areas of research include printed antennas,
electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures,
ultra-wideband antennas and dielectric
resonator antennas.