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The aim of this chapter is to give the reader a general overview about the subject that will be addressed in this book. Firstly, a contextualization is carried out, in order to show where the whole subject fits in and what are the main purposes and challenges. Secondly, the organization of this book is presented, so as to give the reader the road map of what can be found in it.
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Ferreira Carvalho, C.M., Paulino, N.F.S.V. (2016). Introduction. In: CMOS Indoor Light Energy Harvesting System for Wireless Sensing Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21617-1_1
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