Rigorous network modeling of magnetic-resonant wireless power transfer

Rigorous network modeling of magnetic-resonant wireless power transfer

• Costanzo Alessandra^1, ,  , 
• Dionigi Marco² , 
• Mastri Franco¹ , 
• Mongiardo Mauro² , 
• Russer Johannes A.³  & 
• Russer Peter³

• 1.

  Università di Bologna, Italy. Phone: +39 051 209 3059

• 2.

  Università di Perugia, Italy

• 3.

  Institute for Nanoelectronics, Technische Universität München, Germany

• Author Bio:
  Alessandra Costanzo is an Associate Professor of Electromagnetic fields at the University of Bologna, Italy. She has authored more than 140 scientific publications on peer reviewed International Journals and conferences, three chapter books, she holds three international patents. She has developed innovative software platform for the nonlinear/electromagnetic co-simulation of RF systems, excited by modulated sources demonstrating circuit-level analysis of entire MIMO and UWB links, including realistic channel models. She is now involved in wearable energy-autonomous sensors and wireless power transfer systems. She is the MC member of the EU COST action WiPE "Wireless power transfer for sustainable electronics" and she chairs WG1: "far-field wireless power transfer". She is member of the TPC board member of MTT-S IMS, EUMW, WPTC, and RFID-TA ICUWB. She is the vice chair of IEEE MTT-S TC-26 "Wireless Energy Transfer and Conversion" and member of IEEE MTT-S TC-24 RFID Technologies. She is IEEE senior member.
  Marco Dionigi has received the Laurea degree (110/110 cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Perugia. He achieved at the same university the title of Ph.D. In 1997, he became an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Perugia. He took part in several research project regarding the development of software tools for waveguide and antenna full wave simulation, the development of permittivity and moisture microwave sensors, the development of a SAR and ultra wideband antennas. He was coauthor of a paper awarded of the "Young Engineers Prize" at the European Microwave Conference 2005 in Paris. He is now involved in the study and development of high efficient wireless electromagnetic power transfer for industrial applications. He is author of more than 70 papers on international journal and conferences.
  Franco Mastri received the Laurea degree (100/100 cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1985. From 1990 to 2004, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, where he has been an Associate Professor of Electrotechnics since 2005. His main research interests include nonlinear-circuit simulation and design techniques (with special emphasis on CAD techniques for large-size problems), nonlinear RF device modeling, nonlinear/RF co-simulation of RF systems, stability, and noise analysis of nonlinear circuits.
  Mauro Mongiardo has received the Laurea degree (110/110 cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1983. In 1991 he has become an Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Fields and from 2001 he is the full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Perugia. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE for "for contributions to the modal analysis of complex electromagnetic structures" in 2011. His scientific interests have concerned primarily the numerical modeling of electromagnetic wave propagation both in closed and open structures. His research interests have involved CAD and optimization of microwave components and antennas.
  He has served in the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium from 1992; from 1994 he is member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES. During the years 2008–2010 he has been the associate editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES. He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers and articles in the fields of microwave components, microwave CAD and antennas. He is the co-author of the books "Open Electromagnetic Waveguides" (IEE, 1997), and "Electromagnetic Field Computation by Network Methods" (Springer, 2009). Recently, he has co-authored a chapter in the book Wireless Power Transfer – Principles and Engineering Explorations (Intech, 2012), and a chapter in the book Wireless Power Transfer (River publishers, 2012).
  Johannes A. Russer received his Diplom Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003. In 2004, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research assistant in pursuit of his Ph.D. degree. Since 2007 he has been working for Qualcomm Inc. as an intern. In 2008 Johannes Russer received the second place in the student paper competition of the IEEE MTT-S lnternational Microwave Symposium in Atlanta for the paper "An efficient methodology for the modeling of electromagnetic wave phenomena in domains with moving boundaries". He has graduated in May 2010 with a Ph.D. thesis on "Methodologies for electromagnetic field modeling for computer aided analysis of multi-domain physical interactions". Since May 2010 he is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Nanoelectronics of the Technische Universität München. He is working there on the near-field characterization of electromagnetic interference and on methods for numerical modeling of stochastic electromagnetic fields. His research interests concern numerical electromagnetics, network methods in electromagnetic field modeling, multiphysics modeling, and multiscale modeling. He is a member of the IEEE, of the German Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) and of the Eta Kappa Nu honor society.
  Peter Russer received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.E.E.) degree in 1967 and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.E.E.) degrees in 1967 and 1971, respectively, both from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. In 1971, he joined the Research Institute of AEG-Telefunkenin Ulm, Germany, where he worked on fiber optic communication, broadband solid-state electronic circuits, statistical noise analysis of microwave circuits, laser modulation and fiber optic gyroscopes. With his research group he realized in 1978 the first optical fiber transmission link for 1 Gbit/s worldwide. From 1981 to 2008, he has been the Professor and head of the Institute for High Frequency Engineering at the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. From October 1992 to March 1995, he also has been the Director of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Berlin. Since 2008 he is Emeritus of Excellence of the TUM and he is now with the Institute for Nanoelectronics of the TUM In 2007 Peter Russer co-founded the Spin-Off company Gauss Instruments GmbH which is now a leading manufacturer of systems for time-domain measurement of electromagnetic interference. He has published five books and more than 900 scientific papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is Life Fellow of the IEEE, member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2006 he received the Distinguished Educator Award, and in 2012 the Pioneer Award, both of the IEEE MTT Society and in 2009 he received the Dinstinguished Service Award from the European Microwave Association (EuMA). In 2007 Peter Russer received an honorary Doctor degree from the Moscow University of Aerospace Technologies (MAI). In 2010 Peter Russer has been awarded the Golden Ring of Distinction of the VDE
• Corresponding author: A. Costanzo Email: alessandra.costanzo@unibo.it