Radio Transmitter Chip Beams Power to Smartphones and Hearing Aids
From: Microwaves & RF - 02/01/2017
By: James Morris

Energous wants to transmit power to everything from smartphones to hearing
aids just like signals are sent over Wi-Fi. And on Monday, January 30th, it
released a piece of that puzzle, a radio transmitter chip that works with its
wireless battery charging technology.

The underlying technology is called WattUp and it uses the 5.8 GHz spectrum
reserved for for industrial, scientific, and medical applications. An antenna
array steers the radio waves into an invisible cloud of RF energy, inside of
which devices can charge up. The system can deliver wireless power from up to
15 feet away, the company says.

Read the entire article at:
http://mwrf.com/mixed-signal-semiconductors/radio-transmitter-chip-beams-power-smartphones-and-hearing-aids

Links:
Highly integrated wireless power transmitter
http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/da4100

Energous (with video 1:43)
http://energous.com