Research Article

Effects of Metamaterial Slabs Applied to Wireless Power Transfer at 13.56 MHz

Table 2

Coupling coefficients, -factor, and WPT efficiencies for the free space case and for the cases of using lossless and lossy slabs.

Slab
()

()

(Ω)
Efficiency
(%)

EMFree space
(1)
0.00364731.70.132
Ideal
(−1)
0.6986473330.41798
Ideal lossy 
()
0.100110.761.077718.9
RR slab
( at 13.56 MHz)
0.096510.961.0576.818.5

Meas.RR slab
( at 13.56 MHz)
0.101611.841.2036.8522

( = 5.5, = 0.1, = 24, = 12, = 36, and = = 6 (unit: cm)).