High-Frequency, High-Power Resonant Inverter With eGaN FET for Wireless Power Transfer

This letter presents a high-power resonant inverter using an enhancement mode gallium nitride (eGaN) device with magnetic resonant coupling (MRC) coils at 13.56 MHz for wireless power transfer (WPT). The power inverter driving the transmitting coils is based on a class Φ 2 inverter, a single-switch...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power electronics 2018-03, Vol.33 (3), p.1890-1896
Main Authors: Jungwon Choi, Tsukiyama, Daisuke, Tsuruda, Yoshinori, Davila, Juan Manuel Rivas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitance
Coils
Coils (windings)
Electric potential
Enhancement mode gallium nitride (eGaN) FET
Gallium nitrides
high-frequency power inverter
Impedance
Inductance
Inverters
magnetic resonant coupling (MRC)
Power efficiency
resonant inverter
Resonant inverters
Silicon
Switches
Wireless power transmission
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Summary:This letter presents a high-power resonant inverter using an enhancement mode gallium nitride (eGaN) device with magnetic resonant coupling (MRC) coils at 13.56 MHz for wireless power transfer (WPT). The power inverter driving the transmitting coils is based on a class Φ 2 inverter, a single-switch topology with low switch-voltage stress, and fast transient response. The implementation utilizes a recently available eGaN device in a low-inductance package that is compatible with operation in the 10 s of MHz switching frequency. In this letter, we present experimental measurements of the inverter in a WPT application and characterize the system performance over various distances and operating conditions. Before using MRC coils, we evaluated the performance of the class Φ 2 inverter with the eGaN FET. It delivered 1.3-kW output to a 50-Ω load with an efficiency of 95% when a 280-V input voltage was applied. For WPT operation, we added the open-type four-coil unit with a diameter of 300 mm to deliver power over 270-mm distance. With the addition of MRC coils, the class Φ 2 inverter provided 823-W output power with 87% efficiency over 270-mm distance between coils.
ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2017.2740293