Hybrid Metamaterial with Zero and Negative Permeability to Enhance Efficiency in Wireless Power Transfer System

Abstract

Metamaterials with negative relative permeability can change magnetic field in the opposite direction. It can also change the magnetic field direction to straight if it has zero relative permeability. Previously reported metamaterials use only single characteristic which is a negative or a zero permeability to enhance efficiency by field confinement in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. In this paper, we combined two kinds of structures of metamaterial cells, which have the negative and zero permeability. The hybrid metamaterial slab (HMS) is designed by using two spiral type patterns on a double layered PCB. It has the negative permeability at the edge of the slab and the zero permeability at the center of the slab. The HMS can confine greater magnetic fields around and inside transmit and receive coils. Therefore, the hybrid metamaterials can increase the power efficiency by 21.4% at 20 cm distance in 6.78 MHz WPT systems compared to the previous single permeability metamaterial slab (SMS).

Meeting Name

2016 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference, WPTC 2016 (2016: May 5-6, Aveiro, Portugal)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Comments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP).

Keywords and Phrases

Efficiency; Magnetic Field Confinement; Metamaterial; Permeability; Resonance; Wireless Power Transfer (WPT)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-146737986-1

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

06 May 2016

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