Advances in Wireless Power Transfer Technologies and Applications—2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2026 | Viewed by 161
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microwave power transmission; rectenna; rectifier circuit
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Dear Colleagues,
Existing Internet of Things (IoT) devices face significant challenges in terms of power consumption due to their limited battery life. Using wires and batteries to power such a large number of electrical devices wastes time, is inconvenient and is environmentally unfriendly. Capturing and utilizing ambient radio-frequency (RF) energy has emerged as a promising solution for powering low-power sensors and electronic devices, given its unique spatial and temporal distributions.
To maintain power in autonomous devices, diverse wireless power harvesters have been proposed to supply power from the ambient environment, e.g., light, radio-frequency (RF) waves, vibration, and piezoelectricity. To fully leverage these opportunities, such systems require inter-disciplinary expertise ranging from fundamental rectennas/rectifying metasurfaces and propagation research, advanced rectennas with applied microwave technologies, along with circuits and systems, hybrid energy harvesters, wireless power transmission theory and system design, etc. We welcome emerging and well-established antenna-enabled technologies, such as RFID and RF power transfer, that highlight the inter-disciplinary applications of wireless power harvesters, with a focus on IoT and industrial applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Simultaneous wireless information and power transmission;
- Hybrid energy harvesters;
- Advanced wireless power transmission theory and systems;
- Advanced energy harvester design.
Dr. Ping Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wireless power transmission
- energy harvester design
- hybrid energy harvesters
- simultaneous wireless information and power transmission
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