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Caption: Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professor Manos Tentzeris displays an inkjet-printed rectifying antenna, or rectenna, used to convert microwave energy to DC power. This rectenna grid was printed on flexible Kapton material and is expected to operate with frequencies as high as 10 gigahertz when complete.
Credit: Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek
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