Polarization-Insensitive Rectenna Arrays With Different Power Combining Strategies

This letter presents two 2 × 2 polarization-insensitive dual-polarized rectenna arrays with different power combining strategies for wireless power transmission applications. With a dual-polarized antenna array, the incident wave can be received and decomposed into the horizontally and vertically polarized components, which are equally redistributed by a hybrid coupler. By this means, the efficiency of the rectenna, in which the power is equally input to the two rectifiers in parallel, is independent of the incident wave's polarization. Based on the equal power routing mechanism, two rectenna arrays using the RF and dc combining strategies are designed and analyzed. Measurement results show that both rectenna arrays are insensitive to the incident wave's polarization, and have their own advantages and disadvantages.