SRC-340

Construction and Testing of a Space Ready Rectenna, Final Report

Alan M. Brown, Center for Space Power, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University System ·1993 · T3 government or agency report · VC05 VC07

Commissioned by NASA Lewis Research Center. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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CLM-0946 A rectenna under test emitted a spurious signal. The cause was the resistor they hung on its output, not the rectenna itself, and swapping the resistor made it stop. The diode's own harmonics were measured separately and plotted.
CLM-0948 The "space ready" rectenna was tested for surviving the rocket launch and fitting into its container. Its report describes no vacuum or heat testing.
CLM-0953 The rectenna was squashed to fit its container, which spoiled the impedance match between it and the incoming beam. The report accepts this on two grounds: the mismatch protects the circuit from high power, and efficiency was not being measured anyway.

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