2011 was the first year of the innovative wireless power transmission (WPT) technologies, systems and applications from this workshop. After Qi standard of an inductive coupling WPT was established in 2010, wireless charging products of a mobile phone with Qi standard are manufactured and sold in US and Japan in 2011. Some car manufacturers have started to invest in the resonant coupling WPT in 2011. In Japan, a commercial rectenna, rectifying antenna for a receiver of microwave power transmission, is produced in 2011. New technical committee (TC), MTT-26, for the field of wireless energy/power transmission, energy harvesting/conversion to wireless transfer and the related technologies was officially launched in June MTT ADCOM/TCC meeting during Microwave Week 2011 at Baltimore. The first IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series (IMWS) on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications (IMWS-IWPT2011) was successfully finished with 63 technical papers and 176 attendees at Kyoto, Japan, in May 2011. The year 2012 is more important for the WPT technologies. We have to discuss a variety of wireless power transmission technologies, for example, inductive, resonance, microwave, and energy harvesting, and their applications as well as the future of such technologies will be also debated in this workshop. This workshop is supported by MTT-TC-26.
04/14/2012 Deadline of the late registration is extended to "April 25, 2012". Registration NEW
03/22/2012 Deadline of the final paper submission is extended to "April 1, 2012". Submission
03/22/2012 Deadline of the early-bird registration is extended to "April 1, 2012". Registration
03/15/2012 Technical program is uploaded. Technical Program
Co-sponsored by IEEE MTT-S, IEEE MTT-S Kansai Chapter and Ryukoku University
