This technology directly addresses today’s energy challenge by generating clean energy in a highly distributed manner.
Anantha Chandrakasan
In the wearable power generator, a commercially available “thermal harvester” turns the temperature difference into electricity, but the generated voltage and current are tiny. The MIT solution: a novel “interface circuit” that boosts that tiny voltage to a useful level, keeps it constant despite temperature changes, and delivers the highest-ever fraction of the power from the harvester to the device.
Researcher
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science