NANOPOWER Project ended. The reviewers comment is: excellent results!(The NANOPOWER consortium. From left: Clivia Sotomayor Torres, Luca Gammaitoni, Markus Buttiker, Fabian Hartman, Bjorn Sothman, Jouni Ahopelto. Professor M. Buttiker, very sadly died on 4 October 2013).
The NANOPOWER project has completed the third year of activity and has reached the end of thefunded period. It was initially conceived in order to address the powering issue in microscale electronic devices and we are glad to communicate that it has been fully developed according the initial plan. The scientific objective of this project was to study energy efficiency with the specific aim of identifying new directions for energy-harvesting technologies. With this aim, three different classes of prospective power generators have been considered in a coordinated effort by the six research groups composing the NANOPOWER consortium. These are:
We are glad to conclude that for each device class we obtained significant results that are now the object of dissemination and exploitation activities. For what concern the intellectual property protection activities, three patents for three new concept devices have been prepared (one already filed regarding new nanoscale temperature sensor for autonomous ICT device integration and two to be finalized on nanoscale electric generators based on purely quantum effects and a novel method for storing tiny quantities of energy at microscales). Moreover new nanoscale prototypes based on vibration energy harvesting, heat rectification and quantum effects have been tested with preliminary very encouraging results. We have designed, realized and tested a novel integrated nanoscale ICT device that is capable of sensing temperature and communication, harvesting energy through the so called Buttiker-Landauer motor mechanism. If you want to know more about the results please download the Final Publisheable Summary Results document
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