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IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 818-820Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2020.3000768
Keywords
Beamforming; magnetic resonance wireless power transfer (MR WPT); spatial position and alignment freedom
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- Nation Research Foundation of Korea - Ministry of Education through the Basic Science Research Program [2015R1A6A1A03031833]
- Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea, through the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) Program [IITP-2016-0-00291-0051001]
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This letter presents efficient near-field beamforming using two-layer planar loop array resonator for magnetic resonance wireless power transfer (MR WPT). This two-layer structure provides enhanced power transfer efficiency (PTE) of two important functions by adjusting the lumped capacitance of each loop: beamforming and ability of spatial position freedom and spatial alignment freedom with the receiver. The optimal capacitance of each loop can be found using a genetic algorithm (GA). The three types of two-layer loop arrays such as 1x1 and 4x4, 2x2 and 4x4, and 4x4 and 4x4 are designed at an operating frequency of 6.78 MHz. Overall, these two-layer loop arrays improve the overall simulated PTE compared with that of the 4 x 4 single-layer loop array. Especially, the two-layer loop array of 2 x 2 and 4x4 provides the most improved beamforming performance and spatial freedom among them. The measured PTE also increases by about 10% compared with that of the 4 x 4 single-layer loop array.
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