Design, Modelling and Analysis for Wireless Power Transfer Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless energy transmission and collection; microwave circuits and chip technology
Interests: radio frequency circuits; radio frequency semiconductor devices; high-efficiency radio frequency power devices
Interests: microwave circuit; power amplifier; rectifier
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Dear Colleagues,
Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and ambient energy harvesting (EH) technologies are undergoing explosive growth, fundamentally reshaping power delivery paradigms across diverse modern applications. Their proliferation is critical for enabling truly cordless, efficient, and sustainable solutions in domains ranging from consumer electronics and electric vehicles to industrial IoT, biomedical implants, and distributed renewable energy systems. In the future, thousands of sensors will be powered wirelessly through WPT or ambient EH, eliminating the need for batteries and avoiding pollution. Although WPT has made significant progress in recent years, it still faces numerous challenges. These include reductions in transmission efficiency due to misalignment between the receiver and transmitter, decreased energy conversion efficiency caused by changes in load impedance, and the difficulty of achieving high-efficiency power transfer underwater, among others.
This Special Issue will showcase cutting-edge research accelerating breakthroughs in wireless power transfer and ambient energy harvesting. We request high-quality contributions focusing on theoretical advances, innovative design methodologies, and sophisticated modeling techniques across the entire spectrum of WPT technologies.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced WPT Techniques: Near-field—Highly optimized resonant/inductive coupling, exploring novel coil structures, metamaterials, and magnetic beamforming. Far-field—Efficient RF wireless power transfer, high-power laser/optical power beaming, and emerging hybrid approaches;
- Ambient Energy Harvesting: Multi-source scavenging strategies and circuits integrating RF, solar, thermal, vibration, and other ambient sources. Ultra-low-power rectifier and power management circuits for micro-energy harvesting;
- Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) architectures and protocols, as well as wireless scattering communication leveraging WPT infrastructure;
- Components and Circuits for wireless power transfer: Specialized antennas and surfaces—High-efficiency rectennas, rectifying surfaces, and reconfigurable antenna arrays for beamforming. Microwave and RFICs—Custom integrated circuits (chips) for efficiency.
Dr. Fei Cheng
Dr. Ce Wang
Dr. Zhiwei Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wireless power transfer
- ambient energy harvesting
- rectenna
- antenna
- rectifier
- simultaneous wireless information and power transfer
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