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Powering the IoT revolution with heat

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Standard silicon CMOS technology can create thermoelectric micro-harvesters that could be used to power numerous IoT devices.

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) will lead to billions of devices being installed over the next few decades and is expected to have a profound effect on society1. The massive deployment of miniaturized wireless sensor nodes could, in particular, revolutionize the way we understand complex systems and even interact with reality. But how exactly this revolution will be powered remains an open question.

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Fig. 1: Integrated circuit thermoelectric micro-harvesters to power the IoT revolution.

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