3. Tribotronics or coupling tribology and electronics (semiconductor)

However, the word tribotronics can also be used in other areas and dimensions. In fact, the word can also be used to refer to the manufacture of microelectronic components of a new kind, in an area of strategic research that is now of prime importance: the recovery, storage and conservation of energy, as well as the development of wireless electronics and the Internet of Things (IoT). This requires access to micro-sources of energy, along with the development of autonomous sensors, which have a huge range of applications in industry (monitoring machines, vehicles or infrastructures), medicine (monitoring people's health, implants), the military (the infantryman of the future) and the general public (smart homes).

Between the various "free" energies (solar, thermal or mechanical, the latter coming from vibrations or pressures) in the human or industrial environment,...