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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 122, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5001130
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea [2015R1A2A2A03004160]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1A2A2A03004160] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Controlling power to an unintended area is an important issue for enabling wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. The control allows us to enhance efficiency as well as suppress unnecessary flux leakage. The flux leakage from WPT can be reduced effectively via selective field localization. To realize field localization, we propose the use of cavities formed on a single metamaterial slab that acts as a defected metasurface. The cavity is formed by strong field confinement using a hybridization bandgap (HBG), which is created by wave interaction with a two-dimensional array of local resonators on the metasurface. This approach using an HBG demonstrates strong field localization around the cavity regions. Motivated by this result, we further investigate various cavity configurations for different sizes of the transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) resonators. Experiments show that the area of field localization increases with the number of cavities, confirming the successful control of different cavity configurations on the metasurface. Transmission measurements of different cavities show that the number of cavities is an important parameter for efficiency, and excess cavities do not enhance the efficiency but increase unnecessary power leakage. Thus, there exists an optimum number of cavities for a given size ratio between the Tx and Rx resonators. For a 6: 1 size ratio, this approach achieves efficiency improvements of 3.69 Chi and 1.59 Chi compared to free space and a uniform metasurface, respectively. For 10: 1 and 10: 2 size ratios, the efficiency improvements are 3.26 Chi and 1.98 Chi compared to free space and a uniform metasurface, respectively.
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