• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1035-1041
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• 2017

In magnetic resonance-based wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, frequency splitting phenomenon, in which power transfer efficiency (PTE) decreases seriously as resonators are close to each other, is the problem that we should address for reliable power transfer in short distance. In this paper, we present WPT systems using an equivalent circuit model and analyze PTE and marginal coupling coefficient ($k_{split}$) where the frequency splitting occurs. In addition, we perform circuit-level simulations using Advanced Design System, and show that the achievable PTE is different for the structures of resonators when k>$k_{split}$. We confirm that higher PTE can be ensured as k increases in the case of identical resonators, while PTE is degraded as k increases in the case of non-identical resonators. Therefore, in short distance, in which k>$k_{split}$, it is more efficient for achieving reliable PTE to use identical resonators rather than non-identical resonators.