Design and Analysis of Solar Cell Coplanar Antenna for Wireless Applications

This paper presents the design and simulation of a solar cell coplanar patch antenna for IoT and Wireless sensor Networks. In this proposed work, a single solar cell is used as the radiating element and can be used as a power harvesting device. Initially, coplanar patch antenna is designed and Solar cell is integrated with the patch with a thickness of 0.5 mm. The radiation characteristics of the solar cell-based patch design are compared with a coplanar based same structured antenna without solar cell integration. The proposed antenna is designed at 2.42 GHz frequency without solar cell and with solar cell. The proposed design provides the conversion of light energy to electric energy. The relative study of the design gives the performance measures like return loss, gain, and radiation patterns.