Realizing efficient wireless power transfer using small folded cylindrical helix dipoles

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 846-849

  Yoon, Ick Jae ^a   Ling, Hao ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled mode region; electrically small antennas; power transfer efficiency (PTE); wireless power transfer

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; COUPLED MODE; DIPOLE COUPLING; EFFICIENT COUPLING; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; MEASURED RESULTS; PARALLEL CONFIGURATION; POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956984640     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2068534     Document Type: Article

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