This work demonstrates the design of a single band Electromagnetic Band Gap(EBG)antenna by employing an open stub EBG microstrip of a patch antenna for better achievements in terms of its performance to be utilized in a reconfigurable harvester to operate over a wide input power range.The EBG antenna has been used to gather RF energy and a FET-transistor has been obtain-able to determine and control the powerflow with the intention to operate at the same time for a different level of input power.The measured data of the EBG antenna shows a directivity of 8.52 dBi,a gain of 7.18 dBi,a return loss of-27 dB with a radiation efficiency of 84.3%,showing a clear enhancement in directivity,peak realized gain,and radiation efficiency by 41.76%,25.61%,and 17.12%respectively compared with a regular reference antenna;without utilized the EBG structure.Moreover,the harvester design accomplishes 40%of RF-DC power conversion efficiency over a wide dynamic input power range from-15 to 27 dBm,and its peak is around 78%.The harvester is designed to work at the ISM band for 915 MHz and is suitable for Wireless Power Transfer(WPT)uses.
