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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2010.21.5.519

13.56 MHz Wireless Power Transfer System Using Loop Antennas with Tunable Impedance Matching Circuit  

Won, Do-Hyun (Department of Electronics Engineering, Kookmin University)
Kim, Hee-Seung (Department of Electronics Engineering, Kookmin University)
Jang, Byung-Jun (Department of Electronics Engineering, Kookmin University)
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Abstract
In this paper, we proposed a 13.56 MHz wireless power transfer system using loop antennas with tunable impedance matching circuits. In general, a wireless power transfer system shows an impedance mismatching due to a reflected impedance, because a coupling coefficient is varied with respect to separation distance between two resonating antennas. The proposed system can compensate the effect of this impedance mismatch owing to tunable impedance matching circuits using varactor diodes. Therefore, transmission efficiency is enhanced, moreover, the center frequency of the system is not changed, regardless of separation distance between two antennas. In order to demonstrate the performance of the proposed system, a wireless power transfer system with tunable impedance matching circuits is designed and implemented, which has a pair of loop antennas with a dimension of $30\;cm{\times}30\;cm$ cm. The input return loss, coupling coefficient, efficiency, and input impedance variation with respect to a distance between loop antennas were measured. From measured results, the proposed system shows enhanced performances than the case of the general fixed $50\;{\Omega}$ impedance matching circuits. Therefore, we verified that the proposed wireless power transfer system using the proposed impedance matching scheme will be able to ensure robust operation even when the separation distance of antennas is varied.
Keywords
Wireless Power Transmission; Loop Antenna; Coupling Coefficient; Impedance Matching; Efficiency; Resonance; Varactor Diode;
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