A presentation is made of the possibility of replacing metallic patches by solar cells in planar antennas. To demonstrate the concept, a slot-fed microstrip antenna using solar cells instead of a copper patch has been realised and measured. The results show that the ‘solar cell patches’ have characteristics equivalent to copper patches.
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Vaccaro et al. (2002) studied this question.
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