Advancements in

Wireless Power
Haleem Azmy
Bhuwan Ghimire
Andrew R McHugh

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 Thank You
MIT
Dr. Palmer and Dr. Stumpe

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 What are we doing?

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 Giler, Eric. "Eric Giler demos wireless electricity | Video on TED.com." TED: Ideas worth spreading. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html>.

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 What are we doing?

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 Why is this Important?

• More efficient than

batteries1, and no more
batteries in landfills

• No tangled wires

• Automatic charging

• Less gasoline

1. Giler, Eric. "Eric Giler demos wireless electricity | Video on TED.com." TED: Ideas worth spreading. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electricity.html>.

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 When was wireless
power first discovered?

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 When was wireless
power first discovered?

1800’s
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 Theory

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 Resonance
Inductance

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 Resonance

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 Resonance

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Resonance

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Resonance

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Resonance
♩

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Resonance
♩

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 f0
Resonance
♩

f0

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 Faraday’s Law of
Induction (1800’s)

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 f0
Resonance

f0

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils

f0

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils

f0

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils
♩

f0

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils
♩

f0

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 Strongly Coupled,
Magnetically
f0
Resonant Coils
♩

f0

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 Why Our Experiment
is Different
• Midrange power
transfer

• Resonance is key

• Safer than Tesla

coils

• Interference is
essentially non-
existent

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 Our Experiment

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 Equipment Needed

• Two self resonating coils

(made out of magnet
wire)
• A source of alternating
current
• Oscilloscope
• Laws of Physics

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 What’s all this in
pseudo-simple language?
• Works on principle of Wireless Power Transfer Via
Strongly “Coupled Magnetic Resonances”
• A.C. in the driving coil makes it oscillate at a certain
frequency creating an alternating magnetic field
• This generated magnetic field will transfer power to
the receiving coil by oscillating at the same frequency.
This is known as a coupled resonance and is the
principle behind this technique of wireless power.
• A.C. will be induced in the receiving coil, which can be
read by an oscilloscope.

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 Distance vs. Induced RMS Voltage
6.000

4.500
Induced RMS Voltage (V)

3.000

1.500

0
0 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000 2.500 3.000 3.500

Distance (m)
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 Distance vs. Induced RMS Power
0.75000

0.60000
Induced RMS Power (W)

0.45000

0.30000

0.15000

0
0 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000 2.500 3.000 3.500

Distance (m)
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 Frequency vs. Induced RMS Voltage
6.000

5.000
Induced RMS Voltage (V)

4.000

3.000

2.000

1.000

0
0 2.000 4.000 6.000 8.000 10.000 12.000 14.000 16.000 18.000 20.000

Frequency (MHz)
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 Frequency vs. Induced RMS Power
0.50000

0.37500
RMS Induced Power (W)

0.25000

0.12500

0
0 2.000 4.000 6.000 8.000 10.000 12.000 14.000 16.000 18.000 20.000

Frequency (MHz)
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 Frequency vs. Induced RMS Power LOG SCALE

0.10000
RMS Induced Power (W)

0.01000

0.00100

0.00010

0.00001
0 2.000 4.000 6.000 8.000 10.000 12.000 14.000 16.000 18.000 20.000

Frequency (MHz)
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 RMS Voltage vs. Induced RMS Voltage
15.00
y = 2.9204x - 0.0387
R² = 0.9999

11.25
Induced RMS Voltage (V)

7.50

3.75

0
0 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00

RMS Voltage (V)

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 RMS Voltage vs. Induced RMS Power
2.000
y = 0.1448x2 - 0.0126x + 0.0045
R² = 0.9999

1.500
RMS Induced Power (W)

1.000

0.500

0
0 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00

RMS Voltage (V)

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 Future

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 Problems

• Hallway data

• Reading errors

• Manufacturing troubles

• Over our heads

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 Future Studies
• Couple the coils differently

• Multiple receiving coils

• Accurately measure
magnetic field

• Use a stronger function

generator

• Change coil geometry

• Try different interference

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 Question and Answer
Period

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