Position independent wearable 6.78 MHz near-field radiative wireless power transfer using electrically-small embroidered textile coils
Position independent wearable 6.78 MHz near-field radiative wireless power transfer using electrically-small embroidered textile coils
Coupled wireless power transfer (WPT) has been widely used for near-field high-efficiency WPT applications. However, the efficiency of the WPT link is highly sensitive to separation and alignment, and is prone to over-coupling, making it unsuitable for mobile systems with unknown or loose coupling such as wearables. While ultra-high frequency (UHF) and microwave radiative WPT (0.3-3 GHz) enables meters-long separation between the transmitter and the receiver, free space propagation losses, and rectification inefficiencies, adversely limit the end-to-end efficiency of the WPT link. This work proposes radiative WPT, in the 6.78 MHz license-free band, based on resonant electrically small antennas fabricated using embroidered textile coils, tuned using L-matching networks. The proposed WPT system achieves a stable forward transmission of S21>–17 dB and S21>–28 dB, independent of coil, separation on the XZ and XY planes respectively, in a 27 m3 volume space. The presented approach demonstrates the highest WPT-link efficiency, and promises higher end-to-end efficiency, compared to UHF WPT.
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Komolafe, Abiodun O.
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Zaghari, Bahareh
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December 2019
Wagih, Mahmoud
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Komolafe, Abiodun O.
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Zaghari, Bahareh
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Wagih, Mahmoud, Komolafe, Abiodun O. and Zaghari, Bahareh
(2019)
Position independent wearable 6.78 MHz near-field radiative wireless power transfer using electrically-small embroidered textile coils.
PowerMEMS 2019: International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power generation and Energy Conversion Applications, , Krakow, Poland.
03 - 06 Dec 2019.
5 pp
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Coupled wireless power transfer (WPT) has been widely used for near-field high-efficiency WPT applications. However, the efficiency of the WPT link is highly sensitive to separation and alignment, and is prone to over-coupling, making it unsuitable for mobile systems with unknown or loose coupling such as wearables. While ultra-high frequency (UHF) and microwave radiative WPT (0.3-3 GHz) enables meters-long separation between the transmitter and the receiver, free space propagation losses, and rectification inefficiencies, adversely limit the end-to-end efficiency of the WPT link. This work proposes radiative WPT, in the 6.78 MHz license-free band, based on resonant electrically small antennas fabricated using embroidered textile coils, tuned using L-matching networks. The proposed WPT system achieves a stable forward transmission of S21>–17 dB and S21>–28 dB, independent of coil, separation on the XZ and XY planes respectively, in a 27 m3 volume space. The presented approach demonstrates the highest WPT-link efficiency, and promises higher end-to-end efficiency, compared to UHF WPT.
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Published date: December 2019
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PowerMEMS 2019: International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power generation and Energy Conversion Applications, , Krakow, Poland, 2019-12-03 - 2019-12-06
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Mahmoud Wagih
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Abiodun O. Komolafe
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Bahareh Zaghari
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