IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Special Issue on Wireless Power Transfer

Submission Date: Oct. 1, 2013, Publication Date: Feb. 2014

Guest Editors Luca Roselli, Federico Alimenti, Shigeo Kawasaki

Call for Papers

In the recent years, Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) related technologies experienced a great growth. With the introduction in 2010 of the Qj standard, many wireless rechargeable devices appeared on the market, calling for solution of several classes of problems ranging from EMC, health compliance, and power efficiency, representing a stimulating field of activity for scientists and researchers. Beside this leading application area, great interest is being received by two other application categories: Electric Vehicles (EV) and long range electromagnetic transmission of energy. The first is about to approach the market as testified by recent demonstration activities carried on by leading car makers (mostly from Japan). The second is mostly driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) perspective evolution that requires energizing plenty of contactless devices, often non-precisely referred in space. It is clear, even from this very synthetic description of the WPT scenario, how WPT actually is an inclusive, multidiscipline field of different but dependent researches. This special issue aims at evidencing, within this scientific vastness, those aspects more precisely related to RF and microwave technologies in a wide extent (from MHz up to THz). Some topics of interest to this MTT-T Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following areas, and relevant papers are thus welcome: 1. Basic technologies for wireless power transfer systems 2. Wireless power transfer via magnetic coupling (coils, resonators) 3. New applications of wireless power transfer technologies 4. Power sources for wireless power transfer systems 5. Rectifying devices, circuits, and rectennas 6. Standardization, regulation, and biological effects 7. Energy harvesting and scavenging 8. Wireless empowering of RFID and NFC systems 9. Wireless power transfer for Wide Area systems and networks 10. Wireless power transfer for implanted devices 11. Wireless power transfer in space (included SPS) Authors should see http://www.mtt.org/transactions/34-author-information-transactions.html for submission instructions.

The guest editors Luca Roselli Federico Alimenti Shigeo Kawasaki University of Perugia University of Perugia Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency roselli@ieee.org federico.alimenti@diei.unipg.it kawasaki.shigeo@jaxa.jp