Energy-Autonomous Electronics
Challenge: Exponential rise of Internet-of-Things (IoT) smart devices & autonomous AI agents calls for micro-sized energy storage, harvesting, power delivery, and sensing for self-powered intelligent units
Solution: Design new paradigms for integrated on-chip energy and sensing technologies (More-than-Moore) towards realizing next0generation IoT applications & Edge Intelligence
Energy Storage
crystal energy
from electrochemical to electrostatic energy storage
for on-chip energy & power delivery
energy storage NC microcapacitors: Nature 2024
Energy Harvesting & Conversion
lattice heat
from thermoelectric to pyroelectric thermal conversion
for on-chip energy harvesting & thermal management
temp-driven ferroic phase transition near RT: Science 2022
On-Chip Circular Energy Microsystem
Energy Harvesting + Storage | Thermal Management | Sensing
Electrostatic energy storage
Pyroelectric energy harvesting
Electrocaloric cooling
Pyroelectric IR sensing
Sensing
atomic response
pyroelectric, piezoelectric, and polarization-sensitive detection for on-chip sensing
piezoelectric functionality: NanoLett 2023
negative piezoelectricity: Nature 2020 | Science 2022
