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Open Day Printed Systems for IoT Low Power Electronics
 October 20, 2022 | 9:15 am – 2:30 pm

 Eurecat | 72, Bilbao | 08005 Barcelona
Hybrid seminar: Face to face & online

Due to the big growth of the IoT and wearable devices in different environments, like environmental monitoring, or point-of-need testing for healthcare applications, among others, the demand for self-powered devices and sensors rises, as well as for cheaper and faster methods of fabrication. The current research on printed electronics paves the way for design of low cost and flexible device for harvesting applications. The primary way to obtain self-powered devices is to focus on energy harvesting through sustainable power sources, like thermoelectric, solar, piezoelectric, RF, etc. In sufficiently low power applications, these energy sources may even eliminate the need for batteries, reducing even more fabrication costs and pollution.

OBJECTIVES OF THE DAY:

> Explore the most recent application of printed electronics in the development of low power electronics.

> Present the latest advances in materials, electronic engineering and printed devices for low power electronics and energy harvesting.

> Give an overview of thermoelectric, piezoelectric and self-powered devices, together with the focus of their implementation in hybrid printed circuits, for flexible and lightweight IoT applications.

> Generate a think tank of the future of energy-efficient generators and printed devices under the framework of Sustainable electronics and Smart cities.

SEMINAR LANGUAGE:

Spanish and/or english

ADDRESSED TO:

  • Company Directors or Business Managers
  • Researchers

 

AREAS OF APPLICATION:

AGENDA

9:15h – 9:30h

Welcome 

Paul Lacharmoise, Head of the Functional Printing & Embedded Devices unit.
Eurecat

9:30h – 10:00h

Low power hybrid printed circuits for IoT Applications

Ana Moya Lara, Researcher of the Printed Sensors & Actuators line. Functional Printing & Embedded Devices unit.
Eurecat

10:00h – 10:30h

Nanostructured thermoelectric materials

Alex Morata, Researcher
Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC)

10:30h – 11.00h

Devices with printed thermoelectrics

Mariano Campoy, Scientific Researcher
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

11:00h – 11.30h

COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

11:30h – 12.00h

Printed piezoelectric devices for energy harvesting

Gonzalo Murillo, Junior Leader – Senior Research Fellow | Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | ENERGIOT

12:00h – 12:30h

Self-Powered devices

Neus Sabaté, ICREA Research Professor | Co-Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | FUELIUM SL

12:30h – 13:00h

FEM-IoT Emerging Community

Marisa Catalán, Wireless Sensor Networks Research Line Manager
i2CAT FOUNDATION

13:00h – 13:30h

Panel Discussion. Technology future trends.

Moderator: Claudia Delgado

13:30h – 14:30h

LUNCH & NETWORKING

SPEAKERS

Ana-Moya

Ana Moya, Investigadora línia Printed Sensors & Actuators. Unitat Functional Printing & Embedded Devices.
Eurecat

Ana Moya is a Senior Scientific in the Functional Printing and Embedded Devices Unit at Eurecat. She received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering in 2017 from UAB. She has an interdisciplinary scientific background, with solid experience in the design and development of electrochemical sensors through printing techniques specially applied to Lab-On-Chip and Organ-On-Chip systems. Her professional career is focused on the development of printing technologies to produce low-cost sensors in flexible substrates which can be of great interest in clinical and environmental analysis. Her current scientific production comprises more than 30 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 12. She has participated in more than 30 national and international projects.

Alex-Morata

Alex Morata, Investigador.
Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC)

Alex Morata coursed his degree and master in Physics at the University of Barcelona. He completed his PhD in the same institution, in the electronics department, dealing with the development of functional ceramic materials and film depositions for energy and gas sensing devices. In 2010 he incorporated to the Nanoionics and Fuel Cells group at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research. Since he joined IREC, he has assumed scientific supervision tasks (nine theses, two postdocs and numerous master thesis), contributed to five patents, and funding attraction and management activities, being IP of 10 public (National and European) and Industrial projects. He has been reference researcher in the lines of Solid Oxide Cells and nanoionics, and he has lead the research lines in micro-batteries and thermoelectrics. He has contributed to more than 100 scientific publications in prestigious journals of his field, worldwide recognized conferences and several book chapters.

Mariano-Campoy

Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Investigador Científic.
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

Mariano Campoy-Quiles is a materials scientist who has chosen to address one of the most critical problems facing humanity: the future supply of clean energy. He leads a 10-12 people group at ICMAB that has built substantial research efforts in two application areas, solar photovoltaic (light to electric) and thermoelectric (heat to electric) energy conversion. In the frame of his ERC CoG, he and his team have advanced a disruptive technology for the screening of PV and thermoelectric materials. He is co-author in 130 papers, including three papers in Nature Materials as well as a stream of significant papers in leading Physics and Chemistry journals. This output has earned him an h-index of 41/46 and over 8.000/10.000 citations (Scopus/Google Scholar). He is also co-inventor in five patents, and has recently co-founded a spin-off company. He is/has been the principal investigator in 15 projects (including 5 Plan Estatal, two Marie Curie ITN, an ERC Consolidator Grant, and an ERC PoC) and many contracts with industry, summing up more than 5 million €.

Gonzalo-Murillo

Gonzalo Murillo, Junior Leader – Senior Research Fellow | Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | ENERGIOT

Dr. Gonzalo Murillo received his Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad de Granada (Spain) in 2007. He obtained his PhD on energy harvesting from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2011. He was a researcher at the Nanotech-DTU (Denmark), MINATEC (France), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). In 2013, he joined the Microelectronic Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) as Junior Leader thanks to “la Caixa” Foundation. In 2016, he was obtained the prestigious award as “Innovator under 35” and “Most Novel Innovator in Europe” by the MIT Technology Review (MIT TR35). Also, he was recipient of the Engega, Climate KIC and CleanTech Camp awards and finalist of “Premio Joven Relevante” Circulo Ecuestre, EDF Pulse Awards, Emprendedor XXI and Premio Everis. In 2019 and 2020, he was selected as Economic Leader of Tomorrow by Choiseul Institute. In 2020, he received the Ramon y Cajal Grant. In 2018, he also co-founded an NPO, “Clubes de Ciencia España”, to give access to high quality education to students.
In addition, he founded “Energiot Devices SL”, a startup company working on self-powered devices for smart grid, with pilots with Iberdrola (Spain), ENERCAL (New Caledonia), EDP (Spain) and Terni (Italy).

Neus Sabaté, ICREA Research Professor | Co-Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | FUELIUM SL

Neus Sabaté obtained her PhD in Physics in 2003. She is an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the Self-Powered Engineered Devices Group at the Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM). She has co-authored more than 100 papers in journals and conferences and submitted 15 patents. She is an expert in microfabricated fuel cells, a research line that evolved to the biodegradable electrochemical power sources she develops today. In 2015 she obtained an ERC-Consolidator Grant to develop single-use self-powered sensors as key components of a new generation of affordable and efficient point-of-care devices. She also co-founded Fuelium SL, a company that commercializes paper batteries for single use applications.Her innovative vision on the quest of generating sustainable solutions for single use diagnostic devices and the capability of transferring them to the market by launching and co-funding spin-off initiatives has been recently acknowledged with several awards. In 2020, she was appointed Finalist of the EU Women Innovators in the Main Category award, she obtained the national Prize of Physics, Innovation and Technology of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and was awarded with the Award to Technological Innovation from the Foundation for Entrepreneurial Women of Catalonia.

Marisa Catalán, Wireless Sensor Networks Research Line Manager
i2CAT FOUNDATION

Dr. Marisa Catalán currently leads the Internet of Things (IoT) research line, which is part of the Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) research area at the i2CAT Foundation. She is also the local technical manager of The Thinx 5G Barcelona lab, a lab that functions as a product accelerator, facilitating knowledge transfer in 5G technologies, such as LTEM and NB-IoT.
A telecommunications engineer with a PhD in telematics engineering, she previously worked as a researcher at the Wireless Networks Group (WNG) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She has more than fifteen years of experience in wireless IoT technologies (UWB, IEEE802.15.4, Zigbee,6LoWPAN, LPWAN), in sensor networks and in the implementation of prototypes and testbeds.
She has actively participated in more than 30 national and international projects in both the public and private sectors.
She is currently the technical manager of the project “Infraestructures de Carrer Connectat” of the Fem-IoT group.

COLLABORATORS

FEM-IoT
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