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 next-generation IoT applications & Edge Intelligent hardware
from electrochemical to electrostatic energy storage
for on-chip energy & power delivery
energy storage NC microcapacitors: Nature 2024
from thermoelectric to pyroelectric thermal conversion
for on-chip energy harvesting & thermal management
temp-driven ferroic phase transition near RT: Science 2022
pyroelectric, piezoelectric, and polarization-sensitive detection
for on-chip sensing
piezoelectric functionality: NanoLett 2023
negative piezoelectricity: Nature 2020 | Science 2022
Electrostatic energy storage
Pyroelectric energy harvesting
Electrocaloric cooling
Pyroelectric IR sensing