Wireless power transmission with self-regulated output voltage for biomedical implant

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2225-2235

  Ahn, Dukju ^a,b   Hong, Songcheol ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical implant; CMOS transmitter (TX); coupled resonator; inductive link; inductive power; voltage regulation; wireless power transfer (WPT)

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; TOPOLOGY; TRANSMITTERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; CMOS TRANSMITTERS; COUPLED RESONATOR; INDUCTIVE LINK; INDUCTIVE POWER; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER (WPT);

LOADING;

EID: 84887122866     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2273472     Document Type: Article

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