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Boosting the Efficiency: Unconventional Waveform Design for Efficient Wireless Power Transfer

2015; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mmm.2014.2388332

1557-9581

Alírio Boaventura, Daniel Belo, Ricardo Fernandes, Ana Collado, Apostolos Georgiadis, Nuno Borges Carvalho,

Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

Traditionally, wireless power is delivered through single-carrier, continuous-wave (CW) signals. Most research efforts to enhance the efficiency of wireless power transfer systems have been confined to the circuit-level design. However, in recent years, attention has been paid to the waveform design for wireless power transmission. It has been found that signals featuring a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can provide efficiency improvement when compared with CW signals. A number of approaches have been proposed, such as multisines/multicarrier orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signals, chaotic signals, harmonicsignals, ultrawideband (UWB) signals, intermittent CW (ICW) signals, or white-noise signals. This article reviews these techniques with a focus on multisines/multicarrier signals, harmonic signals, and chaotic signals. A theoretical explanation for efficiency improvement is provided and accompanied by experimental results. Circuit design considerations are presented for the receiver side, and efficient transmission architectures are also described with an emphasis on spatial power combining.