Micropelt creates innovative solid state thin film Peltier cooler and thermogenerator devices that build on a scalable semiconductor platform technology. Micropelt products provide extreme power for cooling, cycling, and thermal management on a mm2 scale as well as thermal energy harvesting and perpetual power supplies for self-sustained electronic devices. Micropelt solid state thin film devices target the chip spot cooling, energy harvesting, fiber optics, HVAC, and biomedical markets.
Micropelt has its origins in a cooperation of the chip manufacturer Infineon with the Fraunhofer Institute IPM, an R & D partner of the industry for optical sensors and thin-film technologies. In 2006, the team headed by Fritz Volkert founded the company Micropelt from Infineon Technologies AG. The focus of the company was initially in the development of a semiconductor manufacturing technology for thermoelectric elements (TEC / TEG). In the years from 2010, the course was set in the direction of the IoT (Internet of Things): The area of thermal harvesting sensor technology including power management and wireless technologies was expanded.
With the energy self-sufficient radiator actuator iTRV and the industrial sensor mNODE, the first end products have been developed and are now being mass-produced. Since 2017, the Micropelt - a brand of EH4 GmbH - has moved its headquarters to Umkirch near Freiburg. Here the iTRV family as well as the mNODE are further developed and distributed.
Micropelt is product portfolio consists of MVA 002/MVA 003/MVA 004/MVA 005/Anwendungsbeispiele/Elevator costs lower/mNODE.