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Kawasaki, S. (author)CMUTs (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers) are causing a technological revolution. Research over the last decade showed that CMUTs can sufficiently replace traditional ultrasound technology based on the bulk PZT, along with other benefits such as lower assembly cost, broader bandwidth and monolithic integration capability with ASICs...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shi, W. (author)As a more convenient alternative to conductive charging technology, wireless charging is seen as a key technology drive for transportation electrification. In electric vehicle (EV) battery charging applications, wireless power is transferred through a magnetic link, so it is referred to as inductive power transfer (IPT). One advantage of IPT...doctoral thesis 2023
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Grazian, F. (author)Wireless charging has the potential to speed up the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) because it is intrinsically a user-friendly technology. Furthermore, it is essential when charging completely autonomous EVs, and it enables the charging of EVs in motion without using overhead cables. The most common technology used in EV wireless charging...doctoral thesis 2023
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Lindeman, Pim (author), Steijlen, A.S.M. (author), Bastemeijer, J. (author), Bossche, A. (author)One of the major challenges associated with e-textiles is the connection between flexible fabric-integrated wires and rigid electronics. This work aims to increase the user experience and mechanical reliability of these connections by foregoing conventional galvanic connections in favor of inductively coupled coils. The new design allows for...journal article 2023
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Grazian, F. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Light-duty electric vehicles (EVs) typically have a rated voltage of either 400 or 800 V. Especially when considering public parking infrastructures or owners with multiple EVs, e.g., car rental companies, EV wireless chargers must efficiently deliver electric power to both battery options. For this purpose, this article proposes an advanced...journal article 2023
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Liu, Shurui (author), Lu, T. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)In this article, we propose a reconfigurable regulating rectifier with a wide operational range for wireless power transfer. The proposed three-mode rectifier achieves a broad range voltage regulation without global loop control to minimize the chip area occupation. Compared with previous work, more working modes and greater voltage gain...journal article 2023
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Laursen, Kjeld (author), Zamani, M. (author), Rezaeiyan, Y. (author), Hosseini, Seyedsina (author), Mondal, Tanmay (author), Corbett, Brian (author), Ouagazzal, Abdel Mouttalib (author), Amalric, Marianne (author), Moradi, Farshad (author)This brief presents an ultrasonically powered micro-system for deep tissue optogenetic stimulation. The developed system is composed of a Base for Powering and Controlling (BPC) and an implantable Dust for optogenetics and drug delivery. The Dust consists of a piezoelectric crystal, a rectifier chip, and a micro-scale custom-designed light...journal article 2023
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Zhu, G. (author), Dong, J. (author), Grazian, F. (author), Bauer, P. (author)This article presents a parameter recognition-based impedance tuning method for the impedance mismatch caused by capacitance drift and coil misalignment in series-series-compensated wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. First, a parameter recognition method is proposed to identify the unknown parameters of the resonant circuits by only...journal article 2023
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Savoia, Alessandro S. (author), Giustiniano, Domenico (author), Prelini, Carlo (author), Saccher, M. (author), Rashidi, A. (author), Leotti, Alberto (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author), Ferrera, Marco (author)Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (MUTs) are being explored as power converters in wirelessly powered biomedical implants. This paper investigates the role of mechanical support properties in piezoelectric MUTs (PMUTs) on their power conversion efficiency. For this purpose, a finite element model (FEM) of a PMUT array was developed and...conference paper 2023
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Zhu, G. (author), Dong, J. (author), Bauer, P. (author)It is ideal for the wireless power transfer (WPT) systems to operate at the resonance state for better transmission performance. In practice, however, the parameters of the resonant circuits often deviate because of the capacitance drift and coil misalignment. To this end, this paper proposes a new parameter estimation method for the WPT systems...conference paper 2023
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Saccher, M. (author), Schaijk, Rob van (author), Kawasaki, Shinnosuke (author), Klootwijk, Johan H. (author), Rashidi, A. (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author), Savoia, Alessandro Stuart (author), Dekker, R. (author)Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUTs) have many advantages compared to other ultrasonic transducer technologies, especially for implantable devices. However, they require a high bias voltage for efficient operation. To eliminate the need for an external bias voltage, a charge storage layer can be embedded in the dielectric....conference paper 2023
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Saccher, M. (author), Rashidi, A. (author), Savoia, Alessandro Stuart (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author), Dekker, R. (author)In the domain of ultrasonically powered biomedical implants, there is an increasing interest in cm-scale ultrasonic receivers (RX). However, when a single-element transducer is used as the RX transducer, an uneven phase distribution across the RX area can significantly reduce the harvestable power. In this paper, we investigate the impact of...conference paper 2023
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Grazian, F. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Bauer, P. (author)The lithium-ion battery of an electric vehicle (EV) is typically rated at either 400 or 800 V. When considering public parking infrastructures, EV wireless chargers must efficiently deliver electric power to both battery options. This can be normally achieved by regulating the output voltage through a dc-dc converter at the cost of higher...journal article 2023
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Wang, Yi (author), Yang, Zhongping (author), Lin, Fei (author), Dong, J. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Compensation capacitors are naturally susceptible to manufacturing defects and aging effects, leading to the degraded performance of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system. This article focuses on the compensation parameters optimization during the design stage and control strategy during the operation phase to improve the inherent capacitor...journal article 2023
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Rashidi, A. (author), Zamani, M. (author), Mondal, Tanmay (author), Hosseini, Seyedsina (author), Laursen, Kjeld (author), Corbet, Brian (author), Moradi, Farshad (author)This letter presents an ultrasonically powered dual-wavelength optogenetic device that targets simultaneous excitation and inhibition of neural activities, or in a broader sense, optical stimulation in two distinct wavelengths for targeting different populations of neurons. This can be applied to a variety of neurological disorders. The...journal article 2023
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Lu, T. (author), Du, S. (author)In this letter, a 6.78-MHz single-stage regulating voltage-doubling rectifier is presented for biomedical wireless power transfer (WPT) applications. Derived from a full-wave voltage doubler, a theoretical voltage conversion ratio (VCR) of 2 can be achieved, which benefits the end-to-end voltage gain of a biomedical WPT system with varying...journal article 2023
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Lu, T. (author), Chang, Z.Y. (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Du, S. (author)Dual-output regulating rectifier is highly desired in wireless power transfer (WPT) for sub-100mW bioimplants. Such rectifiers perform voltage rectification and dual-output regulation simultaneously, thus avoiding post DC-DC conversions and cascaded power losses [1 –4]. However, the conventional dual-output structure suffers from a low voltage...conference paper 2023
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Shi, W. (author), Dong, J. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Riekerk, C. (author), Grazian, F. (author), Yu, G. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Due to the urgent desire for a fast, convenient, and efficient battery charging technology for electric vehicle (EV) users, extensive research has been conducted into the design of high-power inductive power transfer (IPT) systems. However, there are few studies that formulate the design as a multiobjective optimization (MOO) research...journal article 2022
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Pahlavan, Saeideh (author), Shooshtari, M. (author), Maleki, Mohammadreza (author), Jafarabadi Ashtiani, Shahin (author)We propose an induction link based on overlapping arrays to eliminate blank spots on the electromagnetic field for moving object applications. We use two arrays of four aligned coils that have a 50% overlap between the two plates. This mechanism compensates for the internal coil power drop at positions in the boundaries between two adjacent...journal article 2022
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Chang, Ziyi (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Du, S. (author), Chen, Yong (author), Zhao, Bo (author)The size of wireless systems is required to be reduced in many applications, such as ultra-low-power sensor nodes and wearable/implantable devices, where battery and crystal are the two main bottlenecks in system miniaturization. In recent years, battery-free radios based on wireless power transfer (WPT) have shown great potential in...journal article 2022