New Microactuator Driving System Could Give Microdrones a Jump-start
An innovative circuit design could enable miniature devices, such as microdrones and other microrobotics, to be powered for longer periods of time wh [...]
EEMS Lab at the University of California, San Diego
The Energy-Efficient Microsystems Lab @ UCSD, led by Prof. Patrick Mercier, endeavors to imagine, create, prototype, and test systems for applications that can only be realized through extreme miniaturization of electronic devices. Since batteries nearly always limit system size, miniaturization requires either innovation in energy efficiency, or in ways to increase the energy available to the system. Applications targeted include biomedical electronics, mobile phones, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, wearables, power management integrated circuits, and more. Please see the Research page for more details.