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Witricity Technology: The Basics: Presented by Bretny Khamphavong

WiTricity technology allows for wireless power transfer using magnetic resonance between two coils. An alternating current powers a transmitting coil, generating oscillating magnetic fields that induce a current in a receiving coil within its resonance range. Marin Soljačić invented this technique at MIT to wirelessly charge devices without direct contact. His experiments proved energy could be transferred efficiently over distances greater than the coils' size through strong coupling of their resonant frequencies. This led to the commercialization of wireless charging under the name WiTricity.

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Witricity Technology: The Basics: Presented by Bretny Khamphavong

WiTricity technology allows for wireless power transfer using magnetic resonance between two coils. An alternating current powers a transmitting coil, generating oscillating magnetic fields that induce a current in a receiving coil within its resonance range. Marin Soljačić invented this technique at MIT to wirelessly charge devices without direct contact. His experiments proved energy could be transferred efficiently over distances greater than the coils' size through strong coupling of their resonant frequencies. This led to the commercialization of wireless charging under the name WiTricity.

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WiTricity Technology: The Basics

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Presented by
Bretny Khamphavong
WiTricity… What is it?
• Wireless electricity = WiTricity
• The transfer of electric energy or power over
a distance without the use of wires
• Electricity
– Current – flow of electrons through the
atmosphere
– Charges through the atmosphere
Magnetism
• Fundamental force of nature
– Materials attract or repel
• Oscillating magnetic fields
– Vary with time
– Generated by altering current
• Drawings
– Strength
– Direction
Earth’s Magnetic Fields

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Electromagnetism
• Interdependence of time-varying electric and
magnetic fields
• An oscillating magnetic field produces an
electric field
• An oscillating electric field produces a
magnetic field
Magnetic Induction
• A conductor which carries alternating current
– Example: copper, silver, aluminum
• Loop generates an oscillating magnetic field
• Second loop may pick up current
– Power devices
• Examples of magnetic induction: electric
transformers and electric generators
Magnetic Fields
Orange – coil with
current
Blue – magnetic fields
created

If current is reversed, the


direction of the magnetic
fields also change.

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Coupling
• Energy/Power
– Energy source has a means of transferring energy
to another object
• Magnetic
– Magnetic field of one object interacts with a
second object and induces current
• Resonant Magnetic
– Natural frequencies of two objects are
approximately the same
Resonance
• Defined as the natural frequency at which
energy can most efficiently be added to an
oscillating system
• Examples:
– Child on a swing
– Singer shattering a wine glass
WiTricity Power

Power source
connected to
alternating current,
or AC, which then
powers a light bulb

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WiTricity’s Beginnings:
The Invention of
WiTricity Technology
Things that Go Beep in the Night
• MIT Associate
Professor of Physics,
Marin Soljačić
• Awakened by his
dying mobile phone
• “A phone should
take care of its own
charging!”
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Eureka! Coupled Resonators
• Practical and safe wireless power transfer
must exchange strong energy without
affecting living beings or other environmental
objects (furniture or walls)
• Solution: coupled resonators
– Two resonant objects of the same resonant
frequency exchange energy efficiently without
much leakage
Strong Coupling
• Highly efficient energy transfer
• Universal, applying to all kinds of resonances
– Acoustic
– Mechanical
– Electromagnetic
• Soljačić, Karalis, and Joannopoulos
published first theoretical results
in 2006, again in Annals of Physics
of 2008
Strong Coupling Con’t
• Soljačić, Kurs, Karalis, Moffatt, Joannopoulos,
and Fisher validated theories experimentally
• Proved coupling could be achieved over
distances that greatly exceeded the size of the
resonant objects themselves
• Published in Science journal in 2007
WiTricity Technology is Born
• Experiment equipment:
– two copper coils—each a self-resonant system,
– one coil connected to AC acted as the resonant
source,
– second coil acted as the resonant capture device
and connected to a 60 watt light bulb
WiTricty in Action

Power source and capture device suspended in


mid-air about 2.5 meters apart with nylon thread

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Wireless Sensor Networks Proposal
WiTricity Technology is Born Con’t
• Various objects placed between the source
and capture device
• Demonstrated magnetic fields transferring
power through selected materials and around
metallic obstacles
Conclusion
• It is possible to transmit electric energy or
power over a distance without the use of
wires
• Marin Soljačić accomplished this through the
use of strongly coupled magnetic resonators
• The commercial implementation of this
concept is known as WiTricity

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