Electronic tuning of misaligned coils in wireless power transfer systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5975-5982

  Aldhaher, Samer ^a   Luk, Patrick Chi Kwong ^a   Whidborne, James F ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling circuits; inductive power transmission; resonant inverters; tunable circuits and devices

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; TUNING;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ELECTRONIC TUNING; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RESONANT INVERTERS; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TUNABLE CIRCUITS AND DEVICES; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84904414180     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2297993     Document Type: Article

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