Title: Wireless Power Transfer Technology

Speaker: Prof. Qiaowei Yuan

National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Japan

Time: 2:00-4:00pm, Dec.4, 2015

Venue: Admin. Building, Room 108

Abstract: Wireless power transfer (WPT) Technology attracts great attention because of its potential application for charging laptop computers, cell-phones, household robots, potable music players, and other portable electronic devices without cords. The history, the present development and the future applications of WPT will be briefly reviewed, then the key issues for the application of WPT technology for industry and our daily electronic devices will be presented, and finally some newest research results will be introduced.

Speaker Introduction： Qiaowei Yuan received the BE, ME, and PhD from Xidian University,　Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1986, 1989, and 1997, respectively. From 1990 to 1991, she was a special research student at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. From 1992 to 1995, she worked in Sendai Research and Development Laboratory, Matsushita Communication Company, Ltd., engaging in research and design of compact antennas for second generation mobile phones. From 1997 to 2002, she was a researcher in Sendai Research and Development Center, Oi Electric Company, Ltd., involved in researching and designing of small antennas for pager communications and the parabolic antenna for 26.5 GHz fixed wireless access (FWA) communication. From 2002 to 2007, she was a researcher with Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan, involved in the research and development of adaptive array antennas and RF circuits for mobile communications. From 2007 to 2008, she was an Associate Professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. She is currently the Professor of the National Institute of Technology, Sendai College Dr. Yuan received the Best Paper Award and Zenichi Kiyasu Award in 2009 from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.

Dr. Yuan severed as the secretary of IEICE Technical Committee on Wireless Power transfer of Japan from 2013 to 2015.And she also was a visiting scholar at ElectroScience Laboratory of Ohio State University in USA from April 2015 to September 2015.