Future Trends in Energy Autonomous Systems

The electronics industry continues to drive previous boundaries of integration and functional density toward completely autonomous, self-powered micro systems. The feasibility of subsystems that can support activities of specific interest, such as those of sensors or of small, «smart» and portable objects, in an autonomous way from the energy point of view is addressed in this workshop. The goal is to overview research activities on energy aware RF applications, presenting the state-of-the-art of the potentials for energy autonomy from the point of view of both technologies and design solutions. Topics will cover issues from current RF and vibration harvesting technologies, energy aware systems, highly miniaturized packaging including energy storage and the most recent advances in EM/nonlinear co-design and modeling.