Metamaterials for Wireless Power Transfer: A New Open Special Issue in Materials
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Key Laboratory of High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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School of Physical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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School of Electrical and Power Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221008, China
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Materials 2022, 15(20), 7230; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15207230
Submission received: 9 September 2022
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Accepted: 14 October 2022
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Published: 17 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metamaterials for Wireless Power Transfer)
Metamaterials for Wireless Power Transfer is a new open Special Issue of Materials, which aims to publish original and review papers on new scientific and applied research and make great contributions to the finding and understanding of the use of metamaterials for wireless power transfer (WPT) and related fundamentals, characterization, and applications.
WPT technology is becoming an important topic for the wireless industry [1], which has attracted a significant amount of attention due to its convenience, reliability, and safety. However, although the WPT technology has numerous advantages, the transfer efficiency in WPT systems decreases rapidly as the distance increases, and large electromagnetic field (EMF) noise is inevitably generated in WPT charging systems and potentially harmful to electronic components, even to human health. Metamaterials are artificially engineered composite materials or structures that exhibit special properties that are not found in nature. Metamaterials can be used to manipulate electromagnetic fields and waves, bringing entirely new physical phenomena and applications. The application of the metamaterials in WPT systems has received a great deal of attention in improving the transfer efficiency and reducing the leakage of EMF in recent years [2]. Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) seems to be an attractive solution for future 6G wireless communication and IoT applications, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) may also be linked to metamaterials for WPT in the future.
The research interest for the Special Issue Metamaterials for Wireless Power Transfer includes, but is not limited to, the following: low-frequency metamaterial-based WPT systems, electromagnetic compatibility in metamaterial-based WPT systems, wireless energy harvesting (WEH), theoretical research for metamaterial-based WPT systems, magneto-inductive and resonant waves in WPT systems via metamaterials, programmable metamaterials and metasurfaces for WPT systems, and SWIPT systems based on information metamaterials and metasurfaces.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, L.L. and M.L.; methodology, Y.L. and C.R.; writing original draft preparation, L.L.; writing review and editing, M.L., Y.L. and C.R.; funding acquisition, L.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62288101).
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Short Biography of Authors
Long Li is a professor in the School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University. Prof. Li is the Director of Key Laboratory of High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC, Ministry of Education, China. His research interests include metamaterials and metasurfaces, antennas and microwave devices, wireless power transfer and harvesting technology, and OAM vortex waves. He has published over 180 papers in journals and held more than 40 patents. Prof. Li was awarded the Chang Jiang Scholars Distinguished Professor by Ministry of Education, China in 2021. Prof. Li is the Vice-President of MTT-Chapter in IEEE Xi’an Section. He is a TPC Co-Chair of APCAP2017, IEEE IMWS-AMP2021, General Co-Chair of AWPT2019, and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal, and the Journal of Information and Intelligence.
Minghai Liu received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei. From 2002 to 2004, he was a visiting scholar with Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Since 2000, he has been with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, where he is currently a professor with the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology. His research interests mainly include metamaterials and wireless power transfer system for electric vehicle.
Yunhui Li is a professor in the college of electronic and information engineering, the school of physics science and engineering and the Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent autonomous systems. Prof. Li is also the Director of the Solid-State Physics Laboratory in Tongji University. He received a Bachelor’s degree (2001) and a Ph.D. degree (2006) in physics from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. From 2009 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China. He has published over 110 papers in journals and held more than 50 patents. His research interests mainly include photonic crystal, metamaterials, and wireless power transfer.
Cancan Rong was born in China in 1991. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2021. He is currently a lecturer with China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. He was Vice-president of CIYCEE 2021. His research interests include wireless power transfer system and metamaterials.
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