Smart Wireless Power Transfer Operated by Time-Modulated Arrays via a Two-Step Procedure
Author(s) -
Diego Masotti,
Alessandra Costanzo,
Vittorio Rizzoli
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of antennas and propagation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1687-5877
pISSN - 1687-5869
DOI - 10.1155/2015/673536
Subject(s) - wireless power transfer , control reconfiguration , wireless , electronic engineering , power (physics) , nonlinear system , sideband , harmonic , engineering , transmission (telecommunications) , computer science , maximum power transfer theorem , energy (signal processing) , electrical engineering , radio frequency , embedded system , telecommunications , acoustics , physics , quantum mechanics
The paper introduces a novel method for agile and precise wireless power transmission operated by a time-modulated array. The unique, almost real-time reconfiguration capability of these arrays is fully exploited by a two-step procedure: first, a two-element time-modulated subarray is used for localization of tagged sensors to be energized; the entire 16-element TMA then provides the power to the detected tags, by exploiting the fundamental and first-sideband harmonic radiation. An investigation on the best array architecture is carried out, showing the importance of the adopted nonlinear/full-wave computer-aided-design platform. Very promising simulated energy transfer performance of the entire nonlinear radiating system is demonstrated
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