A Review on the Recent Development of High-Frequency Inverters for Wireless Power Transfer

Abstract

With the demand for the miniaturization and integration of wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, higher frequency is gradually becoming the trend; thus, the power electronic device has become one of the main reasons for limiting the development. Therefore, further research on high-frequency inverters and purposeful design according to the characteristics of WPT systems are of great significance to promote the development of high-frequency WPT technology. There is still no literature that summarizes all the inverter circuits that can be applied to WPT systems, which makes it extremely difficult to find an inverter that meets the designer’s requirements. This paper reviews the high-frequency inverters for WPT systems, summarizes the derived topologies based on power amplifiers and H-bridge inverters, investigates the main factors restricting the development of high-frequency inverters, and analyzes the research directions for future development.

Keywords

• wireless power transfer (WPT)
• power amplifier
• H-bridge inverter
• high-frequency