{"title":"Wireless Power Transfer with Multi-Layer Planar Spiral Coils as Secondary Coils","authors":"Smit Baua, R. Amineh, N. S. Artan","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639247","url":null,"abstract":"As the sizes of implantable medical devices such as implantable cardioverter defibrillators, deep brain stimulators, and retinal implants shrink; powering these devices become more challenging. Wireless power transfer (WPT) enables the use of rechargeable and thus smaller batteries, however it also requires additional space for the receiving coil. Depending on the location of the implant in the body, device area or volume can be more constrained. In this paper, we investigate multi-layer planar spiral coils via simulations. We study the impact of number of turns on the quality factor for multi-layer coils including coils with different number of turns in each layer (hybrid coils) and we offer recommendations on the approximate number of turns for having high Q values.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124551099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Tahar, Sumin Chalise, K. Yoshitomi, A. Barakat, R. Pokharel
{"title":"Compact Dual-Band Wireless Power Transfer Using Overlapped Single Loop Defected Ground Structure","authors":"F. Tahar, Sumin Chalise, K. Yoshitomi, A. Barakat, R. Pokharel","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639281","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a compact dual-band wireless power transfer (WPT) system using overlapped defected ground structure for biomedical applications. One band for power and another for data transfer. The proposed defected ground structure can channel two distinct resonant frequencies. As a result, the fabricated WPT device has almost 50% reduction in the size without changing other performances compared to ref. [9]. The fabricated device is 15 mm ×15 mm. The measured efficiency is 71% and 73%, respectively at 0.45 GHz and 0.95 GHz at WPT distance of 12.5mm.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122938492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Highly Sensitive Broadband Rectenna for Low Power Millimeter-wave Energy Harvesting Applications","authors":"C. Hannachi, S. Boumaiza, S. Tatu","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639130","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a highly sensitive broadband millimeter-wave energy harvesting rectenna has been designed, fabricated, and experimentally investigated. The proposed structure includes a high gain 8-by-1 gap-coupled antenna array and a zero-bias Schottky diode rectifier circuit, to efficiently convert RF to DC signal. In order to further characterize the antenna array circuit, both structures (antenna and rectifier) are individually implemented on thin-film ceramic substrate ($varepsilon_{mathbf{r}} =$ 9.9, h = $mu$m), using an MHMIC (Miniature Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuits) fabrication process. Then, they are joined together using low-loss wideband waveguide (WR12) to microstrip transitions in order to validate the investigated rectenna configuration. A maximum measured RF to DC conversion efficiency of 49.3 %, and sensitivity level of around −60 dBm were successfully achieved. These results make the proposed rectenna structure an excellent candidate for low power millimeter-wave energy harvesting.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115321556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Simple High-Efficiency Rectifier for Low Power Harvesting","authors":"T. Guo, Qingfeng Zhang, Ke Wu","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639308","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a simple rectifier featuring a relatively high efficiency in connection with low input power. The measured RF-DC conversion efficiency reaches 30% at -20 dBm input power level, which, to the best knowledge of the authors, represents the highest record among all the reported works so far for this power range. The Bode-Fano criterion is employed to achieve the high energy conversion efficiency. Such rectifiers are especially useful for wire-less energy harvesting.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127263150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Shanawani, D. Masotti, M. Aldrigo, F. Mastri, A. Costanzo
{"title":"Millimeter Wave Agile Transmitter for IoT Operations","authors":"M. Shanawani, D. Masotti, M. Aldrigo, F. Mastri, A. Costanzo","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639322","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) technology has been gathering a large interest in the last decade due to its increasing efficiency. Starting from low-frequency systems via magnetic coupling, the trend has been evolving toward high-frequency solutions, with a particular attention to the emerging 5G wireless communication equipment for the internet of things (IoT). In this respect, WPT has to face new challenges to become competitive at frequencies that will be of utmost importance in the near future, like the 28 GHz band. In this paper, we offer a rigorous combined electromagnetic/nonlinear circuit approach to evaluate the performance of a novel WPT system combining state-of-the-art time-modulated array (TMA) technology and high-performance metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diodes with fast switching time. Merging the advantages of TMAs with MIMs gives rise to a new family of low-power WPT devices, able to efficiently supply energy to the electronics used in IoT networks.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123697088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yubin Zhao, Xiaofan Li, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Yuefeng Ji
{"title":"Random Beamforming for Multi-Coil Magnetic Resonance Wireless Power Transfer System","authors":"Yubin Zhao, Xiaofan Li, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Yuefeng Ji","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639369","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic beamforming can effectively increase the power transmission efficiency for multi-coil magnetic resonance wireless power transfer (WPT) system. However, the current beamforming schemes need complicated circuits and communication protocols. In this paper, we propose a random magnetic beamforming method to achieve maximum received power. This scheme is computationally light and requires only limited feedback information. Then, a test-bed for magnetic resonance WPT is developed. The experimental results indicate that our algorithm can effectively increase the received power with a fast convergence rate.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122788298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel Diplexer-based Harmonic Transponder for 5G-Compatible IoT Applications","authors":"Xiaoqiang Gu, Lei Guo, S. Hemour, Ke Wu","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639395","url":null,"abstract":"A novel diplexer-based passive harmonic transponder for 5G-compatible IoT applications is presented in this work. Tx/Rx isolation is obtained through the generation of the 2nd harmonic signal. The proposed architecture design is based on a high isolation diplexer with a single (dual band) antenna as opposed to a traditional design using two-antenna isolation. Such an architecture relaxes the stringent design requirements of antennas in traditional architectures. Subsequently, antennas with enhanced performance can be utilized without resorting to compromise. Measured results of the proposed transponder circuit have shown improved performance over the state of the art counterparts. The conversion loss is about 20.2 dB at -30 dBm input power, which shows more than 10 dB better than previous work.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124594309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonance and Distance Insensitive Wireless Power. Transfer with Parity-Time Symmetric Duffing Resonators","authors":"Jiali Zhou, Bo Zhang, Gongjun Liu, D. Qiu","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639115","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a concept of parity-time (PT) symmetry from quantum physics, which enables constantefficiency energy transfer between linear LC resonators within a definite range of transfer distance, is extended to WPT systems with Duffing resonators. By considering nonlinear resonance properties and introducing complex variables, the coupled-mode models of WPT systems with Duffing resonators are derived. Thereafter, transfer performance in the steady state is investigated in an explicit way according to coupled-mode theory (CMT) as well as the parameter conditions of an exact PT symmetric phase. In comparison with PT symmetry-based WPT systems with linear LC resonators, WPT systems with PT symmetric Duffing resonators exhibit combined features of distance and resonance detuning insensitivity. Finally, a system is designed to maintain constant transfer efficiency of 84% with a resonance detuning tolerance of nearly 5%, which is confirmed by simulation results.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129092345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WPTC 2018 Book of Abstracts","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/wpt.2018.8639105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/wpt.2018.8639105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115803215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low Power On/Off Control Method for Active-Diode Applied in Wireless Power Transmission","authors":"Zhongming Xue, Shiquan Fan, Zhuoqi Guo, Li Geng","doi":"10.1109/WPT.2018.8639136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WPT.2018.8639136","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, multiple-pulse (MP) problem of comparator based active rectifier is theoretically analyzed by establishing control loop model. Two methods to eliminate the MP problem are demonstrated. Then a delay time based high precision on/off control method is proposed. The new controller senses the current passing through MOSFET and generates the gate driving signals to control the next operating cycle of the active rectifier. Under a 13.65 MHz wireless power transmission test platform, with the same rectification parameters, the experimental results show that the quiescent power consumption of the proposed controller is reduced by 2/3 compared with that of the comparator-based structure. The reverse current is almost eliminated because the on/off control precision reachesps level. Thus, the conversion efficiency of the rectifier is improved significantly. The good performance of the proposed design shows its well practicality for energy harvesting systems.","PeriodicalId":180534,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129400355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}