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3D Modelling of Superconductor Enabled Magnetic Induction Transmitter and Relay Coil for Non-conventional Media Communication

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The well established way of communication using radio frequency (RF) waves do not perform well in Non-Conventional (Non-Con) media viz. underground and underwater. Herein, the medium of soil or water is dynamic thus the use of RF technique is unusable. To establish a more effective communication in Non-Con media, researches showed that Magnetic Induction (MI) communication to be more suitable. In MI communication, parameters like number of turns, size and coil orientation have a significant effect on transceiver coil model. In this paper, a novel MI transmitter model using superconductor (SC) in one directional (1D) and in three directional (3D) is proposed. The model provides an enhanced magnetic field strength over a given distance. Further, SC based relay coils which collectively known as waveguide structure is also proposed to increase the MI communication range with intensified field strength. The performance evaluations are quantified in terms of communication range and received power for Non-Con medias. The frequency response for SC based transmitter model is given for maximum power transfer. Besides, the performance of traditional MI systems and waveguide are quantitatively compared with our improved SC based MI system and waveguide. The results show that the system has stronger magnetic field strength and greater communication range than the traditional ones.

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This work was carried out under the funded research project (ECR/2016/001351) granted by ECR-SERB, Government of India.

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  1. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, 440010, India

    Akshay Kulkarni

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, 440010, India

    Vinay Kumar & Sadanand Yadav

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, 793003, India

    Akhilendra Pratap Singh

  4. Centre of VLSI and Nano-Technology, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, 440010, India

    Sanjay B. Dhok

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Kulkarni, A., Kumar, V., Yadav, S. et al. 3D Modelling of Superconductor Enabled Magnetic Induction Transmitter and Relay Coil for Non-conventional Media Communication. Wireless Pers Commun 111, 2577–2603 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-019-07004-7

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