Biological effects of high power microwave power transfer for electric vehicle
The biggest advantage of microwave power charging for electric vehicle (EV) is the capability of charging for a running vehicle. However, the commercial application of microwave charging EV is still difficult because of some issues including technologies and safety. This paper introduces a 100 kW high power class microwave power transfer (MPT) for electric vehicle such as a truck or a bus with 5.8 GHz microwave. The conception of 100 kW class MPT for EV is proposed. We discuss the potential problems of this propose both in technology and safety. Especially, we examine the biological effects of human body exposed to a high density power of 5.8 GHz microwave. We conduct several experiments that human corneal epithelium cells (HCE T) derived from human eye are exposed to 5.8 GHz microwave with the peak power density of 148 kW/m2 for 30msec/6min. The experimental results indicate that exposed to such high power density in 30msec/6min pulsed wave would be considered to have no effect on the genotoxicity to human eye cells.
2016 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)