Energy Harvesting for Powering Wireless Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

There has been rapidly growing in interest in energy harvesting technology over the past decade, mainly due to an increased demand requirement for the use of sustainable power supplies in emerging technologies such as healthcare, embedded sensors, medicines, portable electronics, IoT, etc. However, electronic devices are almost exclusively powered batteries. Batteries have a limited lifetime; therefore, sooner or later, they have to be replaced or recharged to ensure a constant power supply to those devices. Most people do not realize that there is always an abundance of energy all around us. Radio and television transmissions, human body motion, temperature gradients, and vibrations of household devices could be sources of energy. The motivation behind energy harvesting is to convert this ambient wasted energy into usable electrical energy. This ambient energy which could be scavenged includes solar energy, thermal energy, radiated electromagnetic energy, and mechanical vibrations such as walking, body movements, pulses, etc., based on photoelectric, electromagnetic, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and triboelectric effects, etc.

This Special Issue of Micromachines invites designers, engineers, and scientists to contribute manuscripts that address novel ideas in macro/micro/nano-device principles and structures, and the development and applications of energy harvesting technology with the following suggested topics:

• Novel energy harvesting principles and device structure designs;
• Energy harvesting for powering wearable/implantable electronics and wireless sensors;
• Energy harvesting for the water industry;
• Development of energy storage and power management circuitry.

Dr. Chitta Saha
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Micromachines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• macro/micro/nano-energy harvesting
• wearable electronics and sensors
• battery storage and power management