Microwave power transmission technologies for solar power satellites

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1438-1447

  Sasaki, Susumu ^a   Tanaka, Koji ^a   Maki, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microwave power transmission; microwave technologies; solar power satellite (SPS); SPS demonstration

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY; ORBITS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER SATELLITES;

CURRENT RESEARCH STATUS; DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS; GEO-STATIONARY ORBITS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY POWER CONVERSIONS; MICROWAVE BEAM; MICROWAVE POWER; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS;

MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84877923567     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2013.2246851     Document Type: Article

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