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Transactions of The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013 [Technical Paper] A 36 W Wireless Power Transfer System with 82% Efficiency for LED Lighting Applications Wei-Ting Chen*, Raul A. Chinga**, Shuhei Yoshida***, Jenshan Lin**, and Chao-Kai Hsu* *Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 31040, Taiwan, ROC **Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA ***Green Innovation Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-841, Japan (Received July 26, 2013; accepted October 25, 2013) Abstract This paper presents the design and implementation of an LED lighting module powered by a wireless power transfer system. The overall system achieves an efficiency of 82% with an output power of 36 W when the load resistance in the receiver is 30 Ω, which is the turn-on resistance of the LED lighting module. The transmitter of the system adopts ClassE power amplifier structure instead of Class-D, to decrease the number of transistors and its cost. The coils of the system are designed by electromagnetic coupling methodology and realized by Litz wire to reach high efficiency. Matching circuits between the system blocks are also discussed in this paper in order to obtain the excellent system performance. Keywords:Wireless power transfer, Class-E power amplifier, Electromagnetic coupling, Litz wire, LED 1. Introduction also a switching type amplifier. It has fewer components Recently, interest in wireless power transfer (WPT) with high reliability and a low-cost advantage, with a theo- technology has been growing substantially. This technol- retical efficiency of 100%.[1] However, compared to Class- ogy can be applied to charge or power electronic devices D power amplifiers, Class-E power amplifiers are more wirelessly. WPT further contributes to technical fields sensitive to the output impedance. Understanding the such as medical science and automobile industry. A WPT methodology on how to design an accurate output imped- system consists of a transmitter, coupling coils, a receiver, ance of the Class-E power amplifier is the crucial aspect in and matching circuits. The matching circuits between the system implementation. In this study, the matching each system block are introduced to transform the imped- circuit between the Class-E power amplifier and transmit- ance in order to confirm the system blocks operate at cor- ting coil is combined with the capacitor of the resonating rect input and output impedance condition. However, the circuit in the Class-E power amplifier, simplifying the sys- matching design depends on the load resistance in the tem structure while keeping the same performance. receiver. When the resistance changes, the efficiency of Three main methodologies are introduced to achieve the receiver drops due to the mismatch, resulting in a drop wireless power transmission, including electromagnetic in coupling coefficient which consequently causes a drop coupling, magnetic resonance, and microwave power in efficiencies of the transmitter and overall system. In this transmission.[2, 3] Among these technologies, electro- study, the turn-on resistance of the LED module is 30 Ω, magnetic coupling is the most suitable solution for LED thus, the system design is based on this condition. lighting applications. It can achieve efficiency levels of at Another design challenge is the transmitter circuit. It least 70% for distances of several millimeters to several determines the performance of WPT systems. Generally, centimeters between the transmitting and receiving coil. Class-D power amplifiers are chosen to realize the trans- For designing the coils, the quality factor Q is the key mitter, but it requires at least two transistors to achieve parameter. In order to obtain the high quality factor, this zero voltage switching (ZVS), increasing the cost of prod- study uses Litz wire to fabricate the coils to improve the ucts and introducing process yield problems. This study efficiency. selects Class-E power amplifier circuit structure which is 32 In this paper, section 2 describes the design and meaCopyright © The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Chen et al.: A 36 W Wireless Power Transfer System with 82% Efficiency (2/6) surement results of a 38 W Class-E power amplifier with generated by Agilent 33521A waveform generator. Figure 93% efficiency. The content also includes the experiment of 2 shows the implemented Class-E power amplifier. Figure varying the amplitude of driving clock signal to examine 3–6 show the performance of the circuit, and the wave- the performance of the Class-E. The implementation of the forms and output power are measured by using a current WPT system is demonstrated in section 3. The discussion probe (Tektronix P6021), voltage probes (Tektronix of load resistance variation is also presented. Section 4 P2220) and an oscilloscope (Tektronix TDS2004B). shows the LED lighting module powered by the designed Figure 3 displays the drain voltage waveform and the WPT circuit. Finally, the conclusion of this work is pre- clock signal of 50% duty cycle at the gate of the transistor sented in section 5. M1 when VDD of 25 V was applied. As shown, the drain voltage drops to zero right before the transistor is turned 2. High Performance Class-E Power Amplifier on, preventing the overlap between these two waveforms. Figure 1 shows the schematic diagram of the Class-E This proves that the Class-E power amplifier achieves power amplifier which is used to convert DC power to AC proper zero voltage switching condition. Figure 4 shows power. The output power capability of a WPT system is the output voltage and current waveforms. Since they are related to the maximum output power of the DC-AC both in phase, the Class-E can yield the maximum possible inverter. In order to obtain a higher output power, the output power. Figure 5 is the output power and drain effi- value of load resistor R of the Class-E power amplifier ciency versus drain supply voltage. When the supply volt- should be smaller. That is because the Class-E power age VDD is 32 V, the output power is 38.1 W with a drain amplifier will be driven by a higher current, and the output efficiency of 93%. The correlation among the amplitude of power will dramatically increase when the biasing voltage the clock signal, the output power and the drain efficiency is at the same condition. However, according to the equa- is summarized in Fig. 6. The amplitude of the clock signal tions listed in [3], the Class-E power amplifier needs a is varied from 5 V to 10 V while the supply voltage VDD smaller C1 to operate normally when a smaller R is cho- remains at 25 V. The result shows how the circuit per- sen. Therefore, a transistor with small parasitic capacitance Cds is a better choice to design a high output power Class-E power amplifier.[4] In this study, the transistor IRF640 with less than 200 pF parasitic capacitor Cds was selected when the drain to source voltage is over 30 V. Considering the value of load resistor R should be higher than parasitic resistance of L2 to reduce the power loss in the inductor, a 10 Ω load resistor was used to be the initial condition for the equations listed in [3]. Selecting 240 kHz as the operating frequency, the other component values are L1 = 500 µH, C1 = 14.4 nF, C2 = 54 nF, L2 = 18 µH. Considering the maximum output power is over 38 W, these Fig. 2 Photograph of the Class-E power amplifier. components have the characteristic of high voltage and current rating. The quality factor of the components was also considered to reduce the power loss in the components. The 240 kHz clock operating the transistor M1 is Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of the Class-E power amplifier. Fig. 3 Drain and gate waveform. 33 Transactions of The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013 VDD L1 Clock L2 M1 M C2 L3 C3 L4 C4 Rload Fig. 7 Schematic diagram of the WPT system, consisting of Class-E, coupling coils, rectifier, and matching networks. Fig. 4 Voltage and current waveforms at R. Fig. 8 Photograph of the WPT system, including transmitter and receiver. coils, a rectifier circuit and matching networks.[3] Wireless power transfer is accomplished by the coupling coils. These coils, designed by using electromagnetic field analysis method, were made by using Litz wire to form an 8-turn rectangular shape on a paperboard. Due to its multipleFig. 5 Output power (solid squares) and drain efficiency strand structure, this type of wire can reduce the power (hollow circles) versus drain supply voltage. loss caused by skin effect and proximity effect at high frequency, thus the quality factor is increased. The measured mutual inductance between the two coils separated by 5 mm is 21.59 μH while the inductance of the transmitting coil L3 is 17 μH with a parasitic resistance of 0.17 Ω, and the inductance of the receiving coil L4 is 17.36 μH with a parasitic resistance of 0.17 Ω. Those values were measured by using an Agilent impedance analyzer 4192A at 240 kHz. The quality factor of the designed coils is higher than 150. It proves that Litz wire has excellent performance to implement low loss electromagnetic coupling coils. The fullbridge rectifier, composed of four SK310A diodes and a capacitor C4 of 68 uF, was selected to convert the AC Fig. 6 Output power (solid squares) and drain efficiency power to DC power. The series-series matching network (hollow circles) versus amplitude of clock signal. structure[5, 6] is chosen to transform the impedance in order to ensure the system blocks operating with correct forms more efficiently when it is driven by clock signals input and output impedances when the load resistance R is with the amplitude over 5.5 V. 30 Ω. C2 of 38 nF, combining the capacitor of the resonator in the Class-E power amplifier with the capacitance from 3. Design and Verification of WPT System series matching network, is designed to obtain the maxi- Figure 7 illustrates the schematic diagram of the WPT mum power transmission. C3 of 10 nF performs the same system, consisting of the Class-E power amplifier, coupling role. The photograph of the WPT system is shown in Fig. 8. 34 Chen et al.: A 36 W Wireless Power Transfer System with 82% Efficiency (4/6) M C1 Zin C2 L1 L2 Rload Fig. 11 Simplified circuit model of Class-E output impedance. Fig. 9 Power delivered to a 30-Ω load (solid squares) and system efficiency (hollow circles) versus drain supply voltage. Fig. 12 Photograph of the LED Module. Fig. 10 Power delivered to Rload (solid squares) and system efficiency (hollow circles) versus load resistance. Figure 9 shows the power delivered to the load and the Fig. 13 Photograph of the measuring setup. system efficiency versus drain supply voltage when the load resistance is 30 Ω. The system delivers 35.9 W to the system achieves the highest efficiency and output power load resistance R with a system efficiency of 81.8%. The at an optimal Rload. system efficiency versus load resistance when a supply voltage VDD of 34 V is shown in Fig. 10, which verifies Zin = ω2M 2 Rload (1) that the system achieves the best performance when the load resistance is 30 Ω. Figure 11 illustrated the simplified 4. LED Lighting Module With WPT System circuit model of the Class-E output impedance. Equation Figure 12 displays the photograph of the LED module (1) further explains why the performance of the system consisting of 12 LED chips bonded on a flexible PCB that degrades fleetly when the load resistance changes in Fig. can be attached to a curved surface. Measurement setup 10. This equation represents the impedance looking into for testing the LED lighting module powered by the WPT the transmitting coil at the resonance which is also the system is illustrated in Fig. 13. The receiving coil is on top output impedance of the Class-E power amplifier. When of the transmitting coil, and the distance between the two the load resistance Rload of the system changes, the out- coils is 5 mm. The system load resistance of 30 Ω is put impedance of the Class-E power amplifier also replaced by the LED module and it is connected to the changes, resulting in a non-optimal operating condition of rectifier directly. When the LED module turns on, the the Class-E power amplifier. This is the reason that the power delivered to the module is 2.5 W while the Class-E 35 Transactions of The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013 power amplifier consumes 3.1 W from a supply voltage of 9 while the system load is changing is a challenging problem V. The system efficiency is 80.6%. It is capable of powering in practical applications. more LED modules. References 5. Conclusion [1] N. O. Sokal and A. D. Sokal, “Class E - A new class of In this study, a 36 W wireless power transfer system high-efficiency tuned single-ended switching power with 82% efficiency had been developed to power an LED amplifiers,” Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, Vol. lighting module. Due to the sensitivity to load variation in 10, pp. 168–176, 1975. the WPT system, the load is fixed to 30 Ω to meet the turn- [2] H. Shoki, “Issues and initiatives for practical use of on resistance of the lighting module. 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How to maintain a good system efficiency 830–834, 2009. 36 Chen et al.: A 36 W Wireless Power Transfer System with 82% Efficiency (6/6) Wei-Ting Chen received his master’s Shuhei Yoshida received M.A in school of degree in communication engineering from integrated design engineering from Keio Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, in 2005. In the University, Japan in 2007. Since 2007, he has same year, he joined the electronic and opto- been a research member of Smart Energy electronics research laboratories at the research labs at NEC Corporation, Japan. Industrial Technology Research Institute, His current research interests are design Hsinchu, Taiwan, as an engineer. Between and analysis of wireless power transmission 2011 and 2012, he was sent to the University of Florida to study system including antennas, rectifiers, amplifiers and control cir- wireless power transfer technology, ser ving as a visiting cuits. researcher. His major research interests include system in pack- Jenshan Lin received the Ph.D. degree in age (SiP) technology, wireless communication systems, and wire- Electrical Engineering from the University less power transmission (WPT) technology. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1994. Raul A. Chinga began attending the Uni- He worked for AT&T Bell Labs (later versity of Florida in 2005 where he went on became Lucent Bell Labs), Murray Hill, New to receive bachelor’s degree in electrical and Jersey, from 1994 to 2001, and its spin-off computer engineering. Upon finishing his Agere Systems from 2001 to 2003. In July undergraduate curriculum, Raul began 2003, he joined University of Florida as an Associate Professor, working towards his Doctor of Philosophy in and became a Professor in August 2007. He has authored or co- electrical and computer engineering in 2008 authored over 230 technical publications in refereed journals and under the guidance of Dr. Jenshan Lin. The same year, Raul conferences proceedings, and holds 10 U.S. patents. Dr. Lin is a received the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship from the Univer- Fellow of IEEE. sity of Florida Graduate School. In 2010, Raul received an Honor- Chao-Kai Hsu received his bachelor’s able Mention for the Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF, degree in mechanical engineering from the Verosi Scholarship from the University of Florida in 2012 and National Chin-Yi University of Technology in the SEAGEP Fellowship from University of Florida in 2013. His 1991. Since 2004, he has served in electronic work concentrates in switching RF power amplifiers for wireless and optoelectronics research laboratories at power transmission applications and dielectric barrier discharge the Industrial Technology Research Insti- plasma. tute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and is now an engineer in the advanced packaging technology division of EOL/ ITRI. His research interests include wafer-level packaging, optical interconnects packaging, flexible electronic packaging, and 3D IC technologies. 37