Advances in Wireless Power Transfer Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 876
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Existing Internet of Things (IoT) devices face a significant challenge in terms of power consumption due to their limited battery life. The use of wires and batteries to power such massive number of electrical devices wastes time and is inconvenient and 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 the power autonomous devices, diverse wireless power harvesters have been proposed to supply the 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 and propagation research, advanced rectennas with applied microwave technologies along with circuits and systems, hybrid energy harvesters, wireless power transmission theory and system design, rectifying metasurfaces, 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, healthcare, and industrial applications.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Advanced rectenna designs for sensors;
- Rectifying metasurfaces;
- Simultaneous wireless information and power transmission;
- Soft, flexible, and stretchable rectennas;
- Hybrid energy harvesters;
- Advanced wireless power transmission theory and systems;
- Self-matching and auto-tuning rectennas;
- Advanced materials and metasurfaces with rectifiers.
Dr. Ping Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wireless power transmission
- rectennas
- impedance matching
- hybrid energy harvesters
- rectifying metasurfaces
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