Design and test of a high-power high-efficiency loosely coupled planar wireless power transfer system

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1801-1812

  Low, Zhen Ning ^a   Chinga, Raul Andres ^a   Tseng, Ryan ^b   Lin, Jenshan ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b WiPower Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E; Inductive couplin; Inductive coupling; Magnetic induction; Switch mode; Wireless power transfer

Indexed keywords

CLASS-E; INDUCTIVE COUPLIN; INDUCTIVE COUPLING; MAGNETIC INDUCTION; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

COOLING; POWER CONTROL;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 66149158598     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2010110     Document Type: Article

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