Research focus and goals
Energy-harvesting
Energy harvesting and management systems transform energy available in the environment into electrical energy to be stored locally and utilized to power small low-power electronic devices, IoT-nodes or sensor networks. Energy is harvested from dynamic processes in the environment, such as vibration, mechanical deformations, temperature differences, or electric/magnetic fields. The work focuses on developing new harvesters, supercapacitors for energy storage, low-power electronics, and energy management. The research is based both on empirical testing and multiphysics simulation.
Energetic systems
Energetic systems combine electronic systems with energetic materials. These silent sentinels are prevalent and essential to the safety of our everyday life in a modern society. The control of energetic materials presents unique demands for the reliability of the electronics and the embedded software. For example, the car air bag needs to operate at precisely the right moment, but it must not operate otherwise. This is a recurring trait to most energetic systems: the preferred outcome is them not to act.
