Integrated circuits are becoming increasingly smaller and require ever less energy-an evolution that has unlocked a wealth of opportunities for engineering researchers to explore, design, and implement novel electronic devices with minimal energy budgets. Miniaturized wearables and implantable electronics, for example, will greatly benefit from this reduction in power consumption. It will also enable future batteryless, autonomous miniaturized electronics capable of harvesting energy from their environment-such as the human body, sunlight, or ultrasonic and piezoelectric sources.
Researchers in the field of Microelectronics at the SDU Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are engaged in various international and national projects aimed at reducing the energy cost of computing systems. They are leveraging novel devices, circuits, and architectures to develop innovative solutions for next-generation applications.