Abstract
Conference Title: 2017 International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition (iWEM) Conference Start Date: 2017, May 30 Conference End Date: 2017, June 1 Conference Location: London, United Kingdom In this paper, a rectifying antenna circuit based on the concept of electrically small resonator is reported. To verify the concept, it is designed, simulated, and also tested to harvest electromagnetic energy at 3.1 GHz. It is observed through measurements that the proposed circuit is able to transfer 18% of the RF incident power into DC power. The DC output power and RF-to-DC efficiency are investigated with respect to frequency, and also the angular position of the rectenna system.