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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2014.25.11.1128

Analysis of Elements for Efficiencies in Magnetically-Coupled Wireless Power Transfer System Using Metamaterial Slab  

Kim, Gunyoung (Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
Oh, TaekKyu (Telecommunication Technology Center, Korea Testing Certification)
Lee, Bomson (Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
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Abstract
In this paper, the effects of a metamaterial slab with negative permeability in a magnetically coupled wireless power transfer system (WPT) in the overall performance are analyzed quantitatively in terms of the effective quality factors of the loop resonators and coupling coefficient considering the slab losses, based on an equivalent circuit. Using the ideal metamaterial slab(lossless slab), the WPT efficiency is improved considerably by the magnetic flux focusing. However, the practical lossy slab made of RRs or SRRs limits the significant enhancement of WPT efficiency due to the relatively high losses in the slab consisting of RRs or SRRs near the resonant frequency. For the practical loop resonator, other than a point magnetic charge, using the practical lossy metamaterial slab in order to improve the transfer efficiency, the width of the slab needs to be optimized somewhat less than the half of the distance between two loop resonators. For the low-loss slab with its loss tangent of 0.001, the WPT efficiency is maximized at 93 % when the ratio of the slab width and the distance between the two resonators is approximately 0.35, compared with 53 % for the case without the slab. The efficiency in case of employing the high-low slab(loss tangent: 0.2) is maximized at 61 % when the slab ratio is 0.25.
Keywords
Efficiency; Flux Focusing; Magnetic Coupling; Metamaterial; Wireless Power Transfer;
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