Micropelt
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Micropelt GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, develops, produces and markets the world's smallest and most effective thermoelectric elements for clean-tech micro energy harvesting, thermal sensing, cycling and cooling. The company employs 20 staff and currently commissions their first million-unit production facility, also located in Germany.
Micropelt's thermoelectric chips are based on a patented, scalable, thin-film, micro-structuring platform technology, which minimizes component size while maximizing power density for energy harvesting, cooling or thermal cycling applications. Process-inherent economies-of-scale break previous cost and price barriers of conventional thermoelectrics. Batteries become obsolete as cost-free electricity from waste heat powers wireless sensor networks for their entire life. Chip-thermogenerators also boast unprecedented sensitivity, resolution and dynamics in sensing heat flux and temperature change.
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2011
24 Jan 2011
Energy Harvesting 2011
Interested in advances in energy harvesting research and development? Want to understand whether or not energy harvesting can address your particular applications? If so then the following event could be a great opportunity to find out more.2010
17 Nov 2010
Thermoharvesting - The Better Energy Source for Today's Wireless Sensor Networks
Micropelt, Germany
31 May 2010
Second day of Energy Harvesting Europe
The second day of the conference Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe was as rich with information and expert opinion as the first. Here are just few of the overall impressions given by the day's events.27 May 2010
Energy Harvesting Power Budgets and Battery Benchmarks for Wireless Solutions
Micropelt GmbH, Germany
27 May 2010
Energy Harvesting Europe and WSN/RTLS Award Winners
This week more than 250 people attended the second annual IDTechEx event on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks & Real Time Locating Systems. These two events are co-located given the overlap in topic and attendees were delighted with the breadth of subjects that were covered. The exhibition had trebled from last year to 20 exhibitors.19 May 2010
Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks, RTLS Preview
Only the IDTechEx "Energy Harvesting and Storage" events are paired with "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS", covering the systems most in need of energy harvesting.20 Apr 2010
Energy harvesting field test
Micropelt, an innovator in thermal energy harvesting technology, has collaborated with Royal Dutch Shell petrochemical group to prove the concept of converting waste heat into a sustainable, maintenance-free power supply for wireless sensor devices.26 Mar 2010
Harvesting topics at sensor event
At Sensors Expo and Conference June 7-9 in Rosemont Illinois USA, the following topics will be covered in the energy harvesting stream.24 Mar 2010
Wireless temperature transmitter powered by heat
Energy harvesting is used by the ABB R&D Centers Ladenburg, Germany and Daettwil, Switzerland, and Micropelt, Freiburg, Germany to replace the battery with an unlimited, green, sustainable, maintenance-free power supply.19 Mar 2010
Improved thermoelectric coupling
Thermoelectric energy harvesting is less popular than the three leading forms of energy harvesting - photovoltaics, electrodynamics and piezoelectrics.2009
5 Nov 2009
AdaptivEnergy and GainSpan Announce Technology Development Partnership
Energy harvesting innovator AdaptivEnergy and GainSpan® Corporation, a leader in low power Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions, have entered into a technology development partnership to further speed the development of energy harvesting to power Wi-Fi wireless sensor networks.7 Oct 2009
Energy-autonomous sensors for aircraft
Aircraft maintenance will be easier in future, with sensors monitoring the aircraft skin. If they discover any dents or cracks they will send a radio message to a monitoring unit. The energy needed for this will be obtained from temperature difference.24 Jul 2009
Multiple energy harvesting
Jennic Ltd of Sheffield, UK, a manufacturer of innovative 32-bit wireless microcontrollers and modules, has announced a demonstration platform that successfully harvests thermal, solar, radio frequency (RF) and vibrational energy, to power wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard such as ZigBee PRO and 6LoWPAN.2 Jun 2009
Military thermoelectrics
Thermoelectric energy harvesting is used in many military applications. In addition, it is used in the related area of generating energy on space vehicles in deep space where thermoelectric are ineffective, this being done by converting the heat of a radioactive material - the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator RTG.20 May 2009
Progress with energy harvesting solutions without batteries
IDTechEx is in San Jose CA this week, and has attended a conference covering aspects of energy harvesting. Here are some of the highlights of company developments.6 Apr 2009
Thermal energy harvesting and perpetual power supplies
Thermoelectric power generation is based on a heat flux through a thermoelectric element or a thermogenerator.30 Jan 2009
Report from Energy Harvesting Workshop - Part Two
There were many users and potential users at the Energy Harvesting Workshop and they were far from being hooked on any one technology - Read part II of Dr Peter's Harrop's report.14 Jan 2009
Paybacks from energy harvesting
This article shares some of the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report "Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices 2009-2019".2008
1 Dec 2008
Highlights from the Energy Harvesting Technology Event, London
Raghu Das, CEO at IDTechEx reports on the Energy Harvesting Technology event which looked at the use of technologies to generate electricity from the environment which can be used to power electronics and electrics.7 Nov 2008
Energy harvesting
Energy harvesting, otherwise known as energy scavenging is needed to boost and eventually replace the batteries in printed and other low cost and miniature electronics, particularly in order to extend their life in use.