Harvesting energy from sunlight or vibrations could lead to battery-free electronics. Yet it can only generate sufficient output where ambient power is present. This research aims to enable a single energy-harvesting source to power many co-located ‘satellite’ systems through safe, robust and efficient radio frequency power transmission.

Driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development goals, which has identified the issue of electronic waste growing significantly and the challenges of recycling/reusing electronic components, the Centre is currently researching new possibilities in sustainable and recyclable printed electronic devices. Collaborating with Professor Steve Beeby (RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies[i]), this is…

The multinational-distributed nature of integrated circuits (IC) supply chain has made it vulnerable to hardware security attacks such as Trojan Insertion and IC counterfeit. These have severe financial consequences, for example, counterfeiting is costing the UK economy around £30bn and is putting at risk 14,800 jobs. It is also undermining…