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Powering microsystems with ambient energy / Gabriel Alfonso Rincon-Mora -- Low-power energy harvesting solutions for biomedical devices / Jordi Colomer-Farrarons, Pere Ll. Miribel-Catala, E. Juanola-Feliu, and J. Samitier -- Energy harvesting: thermoelectric and microsystems perspectives and opportunities / Terry J. Hendricks -- Thermopower wave-based micro- and nanoscale energy sources / Sumeet Walia and Koroush Kalantar-Zadeh -- Polymer solar cell: an energy source for low-power consumption electronics / Badr Omrane, Sasan V. Grayli, Vivien Lo, Clint Landrock, Siamack V. Grayli, Jeydmer Aristizabal, Yindar Chuo, and Bozena Kaminska -- Inverted organic solar cells / Purna P. Maharjan and Qiquan Qiao -- Monocrystalline silicon solar cell optimization and modeling / Joanne Huang and Victor Moroz -- Piezelectric thin films and their application to vibration energy harvesters / Isaku Kanno -- Piezelectric vibration energy harvesters: modeling, design, limits, and benchmarking / A. Dompierre, S. Vengallatore, and L.G. Frechette.