Assessment of Kapton-based Flexible Antenna for Near Field Wireless Energy Transfer
Keywords:
Flexible antenna, high efficiency, kapton, Near Field Communication (NFC), Wireless Energy Transfer (WET)Abstract
This letter presents the design of a flexible highly efficient antenna for Wireless Energy Transfer (WET) at 13.56 MHz. The proposed antenna uses very thin kapton, with a thickness of 25 ?m as a substrate, and an 18 ?m layer of copper as the conductive material. The 40 mm x 40 mm 6 loop antenna produces almost 90% ETE (energy transfer efficiency) and a bandwidth (BW) of almost 4 MHz for inductive wireless communications. This flexible antenna is suitable for use in small mobile devices, for wireless charging and communication purposes at the NFC operating frequency. In addition, kapton offers very high durability, high mechanical strength, and unique distortional resistance to harsh environments and corrosive aqueous etchants, in this way increasing the reliability of the antenna.
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