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In contrast to the conventional two-coil-based inductive links, this paper presents a magnetically coupled fully planar four-coil printed spiral resonator-based wireless power-transfer system that compensates the adverse effect of low coupling and improves efficiency by using high quality-factor coils. A conformal architecture is adopted to reduce the transmitter and receiver sizes. Both square architecture and circular architectures are analyzed and optimized to provide maximum efficiency at a certain operating distance. Furthermore, their performance is compared on the basis of the power-transfer efficiency and power delivered to the load. Square resonators can produce higher measured power-transfer efficiency (79.8%) than circular resonators (78.43%) when the distance between the transmitter and receiver coils is 10 mm of air medium at a resonant frequency of 13.56 MHz. On the other hand, circular coils can deliver higher power (443.5 mW) to the load than the square coils (396 mW) under the same medium properties. The performance of the proposed structures is investigated by simulation using a three-layer human-tissue medium and by experimentation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16081219","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,3]],"date-time":"2016-08-03T10:10:31Z","timestamp":1470219031000},"page":"1219","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":44,"title":["Analysis and Optimization of Four-Coil Planar Magnetically Coupled Printed Spiral Resonators"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1805-7999","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sadeque","family":"Khan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, SoC Design Laboratory, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"GoangSeog","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, SoC Design Laboratory, Chosun University, Gwangju 61452, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123","DOI":"10.1109\/JSSC.2006.886567","article-title":"A low-power integrated circuit for a wireless 100-electrode neural recording system","volume":"42","author":"Harrison","year":"2007","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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