rectenna

plural rectennas · plural rectennae

1. A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.

   This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.

   2015, Pai-Yen Chen, Mehdi Hajizadegan, Maryam Sakhdari, Andrea Alù, “Giant Photoresponsivity of Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Quantum Regime”, in arXiv