Parasitic Patch-based Power Transfer Efficiency Enhancement of WPT
Systems using Circularly Polarized Antennas for IMDs
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a parasitic patch-based method to improve the
power transfer efficiency of radiative wireless power transfer (WPT)
systems involving implanted biomedical devices. The proposed WPT system
uses circularly polarised antennas, having a four-element sequentially
rotated antenna array, as the Tx and a miniaturized circularly polarized
antenna implanted inside a body mimicking gel as the Rx with a parasitic
patch placed in close vicinity. The design guidelines for the dimensions
of the parasitic patch and its distance from the implanted antenna are
discussed in-depth based on rigorous parametric studies and analysis.
The proposed parasitic patch-based method improves the implantable
antenna gain by 7.83 dBic, thereby increasing the power transfer
efficiency at 2.4 GHz operating frequency. Improvement in power transfer
is experimentally demonstrated with the help of a low-cost experimental
setup having a software-defined radio (SDR) and a spectrum analyzer.
Further to analyze the effect of interfering signals on the performance
of the WPT system, power received by the implantable antenna is measured
in presence of a secondary transmitter.