Abstract
A device comprised of gold patch antennas with Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 thermoelectric lines has been fabricated using optical lithography and characterized using a vector network analyzer (VNA) to analyze the thermoelectric voltage as a function of electromagnetic power. Simulation results show that this device has a resonance at 10 GHz. The calculated bandwidth for this dual microstrip patch is 7 GHz which is an improvement over non-thermoelectric rectangular microstrip patches which are known to be narrow-band antennas. Experimental results where the source antenna power was varied from 0 to 10 mW (−20 dB) show that the resulting thermoelectric voltage measured at the thermoelectric antenna ranged from 0 to 17.5 µV. Hence, the thermoelectric device based in microstrip nanoantennas has a responsivity of 1.75 µV/mW.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e70069 |
Journal | Microwave and Optical Technology Letters |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2025 |
Keywords
- microstrip antennas
- microwaves
- radar
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering