The high-Q achievable by self-resonant structures increases the range and efficiency of wireless power transfer (WPT). However, to date implementations of this structure have been thick, which limits their practical implementations. In the attached paper, we explore the design of thin self-resonant structures.

We describe:
1) a computationally efficient 2-D optimization algorithm is proposed to design thin
resonant structures and illustrate the trade-offs in the design, and
2)a new magnetic core shape is proposed which shapes the magnetic field lines to be parallel to the conductive layers and reduces current crowding.

These advances results in a prototype 3.5 mm thick self-resonant structure, which has a measured quality factor of 560 despite having a diameter of only 6.6 cm; this provides a 3.03× improvement over the state-of-the-art WPT coils in the literature.

See a full description of the thin structure in the attached paper