Wireless Charging Technologies: Fundamentals, Standards, and Network Applications

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1413-1452

  Lu, Xiao ^a   Wang, Ping ^b   Niyato, Dusit ^b   Kim, Dong In ^c   Han, Zhu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

A4WP; energy beamforming; energy harvesting; inductive coupling; Magnetic MIMO; PMA; Qi; resonance coupling; RF Microwave radiation; simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT); Wireless Charging; wireless power transfer; wireless powered communication network (WPCN); Witricity

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MIMO SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

A4WP; INDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; INFORMATION AND POWER TRANSFERS; RESONANCE COUPLINGS; RF/MICROWAVE; WIRELESS CHARGING; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER; WITRICITY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84971569997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2499783     Document Type: Article

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