Research project principal investigator: Professor Po-Hung Chen

Prof. Po-Hung Chen, Prof. Chung-Yu Wu, and Prof. Ming-Dou Ker led a PhD student Hao-Chung Cheng, and two master students Yi-Lun Chen, Meng-Jung Tsou to Tohoku University and visit Takahito Ono’s team to confirm the system/component specifications during Aug.21-24. We hold the bilateral seminar: "2nd Joint Workshop on Bio-medical Sensor Network between NCTU and Tohoku Univ.". The professors from both sides shared research overview and recent research results, and discussed the possible future cooperation topics.
 

2Prof. Po-Hung Chen visited Prof. Hirose at Osaka University on Sep. 02-05 for research exchange and laboratory tour. The National Chiao Tung University team has made a number of results on circuits and systems development, and the Osaka University team has made a number of studies on low-power sub-circuit techniques in recent years. Through this research exchange, we understood each other’s technical strength and planed for future cooperation.


During Dec. 17-19, we invited Prof. Takahito Ono of Tohoku University to participate Mini Symposium between Ono Lab and Chen Lab. We had an in-deep discussion on system/component confirmation, circuit design progress, etc., in order to facilitate subsequent project cooperation.


Both parties have their own strength. The teams of National Chiao Tung University and Osaka University are good at circuit design, and the team of Tohoku University has outstanding results in thermoelectric generators, super capacitors, and biosensing components. From the discussion in August 2019, the system specifications and component specifications have been confirmed. Tohoku University is improving thermoelectric generators and supercapacitors, hoping to increase the area and increase the output voltage. The teams of National Chiao Tung University and Osaka University design energy harvesting circuits based on the expected specifications of the thermoelectric generators of Tohoku University.