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Anantha Chandrakasan, director of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories, sees big potential for electronics with tiny power needs.

Patrick Mercier, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Connected Health for Remote Patient Monitoring".

Bonnie Lam, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Low-Power Multi-Standard Ultra-HD Video Codec".

Marcus Yip, MTL Annual Research Conference Presentation Award. "Digitally-Assisted Sensor Interface for Biomedical Applications".

Energy harvested from our bodies will make possible mind-boggling gadgetry

C. -C. Cheng, Y. -M. Tsai, L. -G. Chen, A. P. Chandrakasan, 2010 CICC Best Regular Paper Award, "A 0.077 to 1.168 nJ/bit/iteration Scalable 3GPP LTE Turbo Decoder with an Adaptive Sub-Block Parallel Scheme and an Embedded DVFS Engine", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.

Forget about batteries. The ability to harness electricity from tiny vibrations could power a new generation of electronic devices.

Harvesting electricity from small temperature differences could enable a new generation of electronic devices that don’t need batteries