Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting and Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Most embedded devices and remote sensors are powered by batteries. Yet, the lifespan of the batteries is limited to a few years. To eliminate costly battery replacement issues, especially when it is impractical or dangerous, energy harvesting technologies provide unique opportunities for unlimited operating life of low power devices. Energy harvesting by thermoelectric effects offers an alternative source of usable electrical power by capture and conversion of available thermal energy in the environment.

By creative and innovative design and integration, feasible and reliable thermoelectric systems can be investigated in order to provide efficient and reliable energy harvesting systems for sensory platforms.

This Special Issue addresses academic research in this dynamic and promising domain with the aim of increasing the visibility of its many valuable and interesting results. Authors are, therefore, kindly invited to send their original contributions, research and review papers, which are not currently under consideration elsewhere.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design and modelling of thermoelectric generators for low-power sensor and actuator devices, and condition monitoring;
• Co-designing and co-optimization of integrated energy-harvesting system elements;
• Manufacturing, testing and verification of thermoelectric-based energy harvesting systems;
• Low cost strategies and packaging system integration technologies for self-powered and self-sustainable IoT-enabled systems and smart energy networks;
• Reliability and feasibility studies and consideration of the critical problems of energy harvesting systems;
• Maximum power pint tracking and power management of the energy harvesting systems.

Dr. Alireza Rezaniakolaei
Guest Editor

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• Thermoelectric generators
• Energy harvesting
• System integration
• Sensor applications for wireless communication
• Self-powered and autonomous systems