Dec 14 2009
Micropelt GmbH Germany-based manufacturer of thin film thermoelectrics, announced its sales and service strategy in Japan, in cooperation with CP+C Japan Partners Ltd of Tokyo Japan.
Japan is well recognized as a key strategic market for Micropelt’s thin-film thermoelectric solutions, since it takes a leading position in clean and renewable energy conserving technologies in many industries. “We have recognized that the Japanese market is highly promising for the chip-sized thermoelectric harvesting and efficient cooler chips of Micropelt”, mentioned Dr. Hidetoshi Nishi, CTO of CP&C.
Micropelt’s thermoelectric chips are fabricated in a unique, wafer based semiconductor manufacturing process, resulting in the world’s smallest thermoelectric component technology. With an output voltage of 140mV per degree, Micropelt’s thermoelectric generator chips (TEGs) offer a perfect match to all actual ultra low-power semiconductor solutions, even at low temperature gradients.
This makes Micropelt TEGs the ideal solution for battery-free applications, such as wireless sensors and smart energy operated equipment, operating from renewable energy generated by a waste heat source.
Micropelt thermoelectric cooler chips (TECs), based on the same micro-electronic technology, offer a unique roadmap to miniaturization of fiber optic, photonic and sensor components. The trend of form factor reduction of optical transceiver modules matches perfectly with the chip-size TECs of Micropelt, offering thew additional benefit of a higher energy efficiency to drive the TEC.
“To jump-start the evaluation and prototyping of thermoelectric clean power systems, Micropelt offers robust and complete evaluation systems”, said Wladimir Punt, VP Sales & Marketing at Micropelt”. “The TE-Power NODE represents a fully autonomous wireless sensing system, working without batteries and only needs a waste heat source to operate”.
CP&C and Micropelt will present Micropelt’s thermoelectric coolers and generators at the FOE Fiber Optics Expo 2010 in Tokyo, from January 20th to 22nd in Tokyo.
Details and datasheets of Micropelt’s thermoelectric solutions can be found at http://www.micropelt.com/products/datasheets.php for the components and http://www.micropelt.com/applications/energy_harvesting.php for the systems.
Information on CP&C can be found at http://www.cpcjp.co.jp/ .