Wireless Power
Posted on: January 13, 2007
- Researchers at MIT reported that they had discovered an efficient way to transfer power between coils separated by a few meters.
- Induction can take place a little differently if the electromagnetic fields around the coils resonate at the same frequency. The theory uses a curved coil of wire as an inductor. A capacitance plate, which can hold a charge, attaches to each end of the coil. As electricity travels through this coil, the coil begins to resonate. Its resonant frequency is a product of the inductance of the coil and the capacitance of the plates.
- As long as both coils are out of range of one another, nothing will happen, since the fields around the coils aren’t strong enough to affect much around them. Similarly, if the two coils resonate at different frequencies, nothing will happen. But if two resonating coils with the same frequency get within a few meters of each other, streams of energy move from the transmitting coil to the receiving coil.
