Yuan Yao

ORCID: 0000-0002-4853-7785
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Research Areas
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Industrial Technology and Control Systems
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency
  • Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • Power Systems and Technologies
  • Advanced materials and composites
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomena
  • Piezoelectric Actuators and Control
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Electrical Contact Performance and Analysis
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Smart Grid and Power Systems
  • Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2018-2025

University of Hong Kong
2018-2025

Hunan University
2006-2023

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2009

This paper presents an active rectifier operating at 40.68 MHz for wirelessly powered biomedical implant devices. The commonly used current-injection-based compensation and delay-based schemes are analyzed. To tackle design difficulties high frequency, a hybrid delay-compensation scheme is proposed to compensate the turn-on turnoff delays. has simple control logic that results in power-efficient comparator design. A fully integrated was fabricated standard 0.18-μm CMOS process with total...

10.1109/tcsi.2019.2928815 article EN IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers 2019-08-06

10.1109/iscas58744.2024.10558205 article EN 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2024-05-19

A 6.78 MHz single-stage transmitter (TX) using a reconfigurable regulating class-D power amplifier (PA) for wireless transfer (WPT) applications is presented. Based on 3-mode modulation scheme, the TX achieves regulation and transmission with only one stage. discontinuous-conduction-mode (DCM) zero-voltage switching (ZVS) scheme adopted to reduce loss. control loop set regulate output voltage of WPT receiver (RX) by automatically adjusting transmitting power. With dual-loop...

10.1109/tcsi.2021.3071265 article EN IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers 2021-04-28

A 13.56-MHz single-input dual-output (SIDO) wireless power and data transfer (WPDT) system designed for bio-implants is presented. The incorporates a reconfigurable amplifier (RPA) an SIDO rectifier that generates regulated outputs of 1.2 2.5 V different functional blocks bio-implant. dynamic distribution (DPD) scheme employed to adjust the duty ratios based on changing load conditions. WPDT makes use reflected impedances two enable reliable transfer. Implemented in standard 65-nm CMOS...

10.1109/jssc.2024.3372430 article EN IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 2024-03-19

An ultra-lower-power reconfigurable voltage detector for indoor solar energy harvester is presented. The monitors the cell and sends out a flag signal if surpasses triggering threshold of detector. Instead using traditional dynamic comparator, this design based on power-on-reset (POR) circuit. A POR circuit has ultra-low quiescent loss fixed threshold, which determined by its topology process. Our improvement to use feedback loop that allows be reconfigurable. average 2.774nW. Process...

10.1109/iscas.2018.8351096 article EN 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2018-01-01

The design of a thin-film spiral inductor with multi-fin structure on flexible substrate is proposed that can be used in fully integrated wireless power transfer (WPT) system. A solid coil the same dimension and copper thickness but without designed compared. For coil, parasitic resistance reduced from <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$11.6~\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> to...

10.1109/led.2023.3241174 article EN IEEE Electron Device Letters 2023-01-31

This paper presents an active rectifier operating at 40.68MHz for wirelessly powered implant devices. To tackle the design difficulties high frequency, a hybrid delay compensation scheme is proposed to compensate turn-on and turn-off delays. Comparing commonly used current-injection-based scheme, this simplifies control logic results in more power efficient comparator design. The fabricated standard 0.18μm CMOS process with total area of 1.581mm <sup...

10.1109/apccas.2018.8605616 article EN 2018-10-01

A detection (tertiary) coil co-planar with the transmitter receives and decodes backscattered data from receiver using load shift keying (LSK). Tertiary parameters such as number of turns, compensation capacitance quality factor are studied for maximizing voltage gain end-to-end efficiency through novel analytical modelling, SPICE simulations measurement results. "inside-tertiary structure" is suggested to save overall area, two variations discussed. Voltage improved by ~197% ~15%,...

10.1109/iscas48785.2022.9937926 article EN 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022-05-28

This paper presents an energy storage system based on ultra-capacitor to absorbing the regenerating of urban rail transit and releasing when train starts, which can cut down waste. A modular power conversation scheme is proposed accommodate application different electric supply system, with several module connected in series endure high voltage. Multiphase conversion circuit adopted share current, a dual-loop control realize bi-directional flow achieve input voltage equalization modules....

10.1109/ecce.2009.5316273 article EN 2009-09-01

Load shift keying (LSK) is widely used in a wireless power transfer (WPT) system to backscatter secondary side information the primary side. However, when coupling coefficient ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">k</i> ) between transmitter and receiver coils lower than critical value <sub xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">DF</sub> ), demodulated LSK data may flip from "1" "0" or "1," which popularly known as...

10.1109/tpel.2023.3275377 article EN IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2023-05-11

A polyimide-based flexible 3-coil inductive power transfer link is proposed to improve the efficiency (PTE) for implantable medical devices (IMDs). An iterative design procedure devised obtain optimal coil geometries of link. example that optimized a 40.68MHz carrier frequency with coupling distance 15mm presented. The results have been verified through simulations and measurements.

10.1109/apccas.2018.8605614 article EN 2018-10-01

Class-D half-bridge power amplifiers (PA) are used to drive the primary coil of a coupled wireless transfer (WPT) system. We analyze inductor current cases such as off-resonant operation, overtuned- and undertuned-capacitor effects due finite rise fall times. also case with Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) tank. SPICE simulations validate all analytical calculations errors smaller than 2%.

10.1109/iecon48115.2021.9589480 article EN IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2021-10-13

The 'power frequency splitting' phenomenon is widely observed over critical coupling conditions in the wireless power transfer system. Frequency splitting occurs voltage gain and delivered to load (PDL) curve but not end-to-end efficiency curve. This brief has considered mutual inductance model analyze relationship between characteristic frequencies circuit parameters series-parallel Here authors have proposed a novel co-simulation platform using ANSYS MAXWELL SIMPLORER for dynamic modeling...

10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871738 article EN 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine &amp; Biology Society (EMBC) 2022-07-11

Galvanically isolated DC-DC converters play a significant role in power delivery under hostile conditions such as industrial automation, electric vehicles, and sensor interfaces, ensuring the safety reliability of devices. A regulation scheme transmitter (either pulse width modulation or hysteretic control) is needed for generating stable DC voltage various load conditions. Pulse (PWM) common Class-E amplifiers (PAs), adopted [1]. However, output Class-D PA cannot be well regulated by...

10.1109/cicc60959.2024.10529056 article EN 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2024-04-21

A fully integrated primary equalizer-assisted constant off-time and hysteretic control reconfigurable transmitter at 13.56 MHz for wireless power transfer (WPT) applications is presented. The can automatically reconfigure to half or full-bridge modes by sensing the operating conditions of secondary side. Measurement results show instant load transient response, increased E2E efficiency, 10% reduced chip area are achieved cost distance range w.r.t. closed-loop control. proposed design...

10.1109/embc53108.2024.10782742 article EN 2024-07-15

This brief presents a 600kHz relaxation oscillator with 2.2 μW power consumption. A low frequency-locked loop (FLL) structure is proposed to increase the frequency immunity against voltage, temperature and process (PVT) variations. front-end regulator further enhance voltage stability limited overhead. current-injection scheme compensate variation from on-chip poly-resistors. Fabricated in 0.18 μm technology, this can operate at an unregulated supply 1.1V 3.3V 0.046%/V measured 48.69ppm/°C...

10.23919/vlsic.2019.8778065 article EN Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2019-06-01

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) gives new insights into the effective fabrication of multi-material parts. However, they have not reached mechanical reliability due to undesirable physical defects such as porosity related spatter. The effect a bed-substrate system with on thermo-mechanical behavior parts is still unclear. In this paper, considering spatter, property model titanium alloy/ceramic composites (TCCs) established based mixture method. Considering temperature-dependent thermal...

10.2139/ssrn.4331997 article EN 2023-01-01

The mechanical performance of metallic parts fabricated by powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing is directly linked with process variables. However, it remains challenging to rapidly forecast the resulting based on specified conditions. To tackle this issue, paper proposes a process-performance prediction model capable efficiently estimating yielding strength (YS) and ultimate tensile (UTS) via used parameters. formation quality metals related energy absorptivity/consumption first...

10.2139/ssrn.4517785 preprint EN 2023-01-01

Inductively-coupled wireless powered transfer (WPT) is widely used in implantable medical devices (IMD) [1] to avoid batteries. Flexible coils [2] are desired this application as they can be attached onto or implanted into human body. However, flexible coil bending incoming magnetic shielding material cause mismatch between LC tank's resonant frequency <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$(\mathrm{f}_{\text{LC}})$</tex> and primary...

10.1109/a-sscc58667.2023.10347922 article EN 2022 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2023-11-05
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