A Complete Fully Thin-Film PV Harvesting and Power-Management System on Plastic With On-Sheet Battery Management and Wireless Power Delivery to Off-sheet Loads

Large-area electronics enables the creation of systems with transformational capabilities and form factors. Through the ability to integrate thin-film photovoltaics, batteries, and active transistors, complete power-management subsystems addressing a wide range of applications can also be created. W...

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Published in:IEEE journal of photovoltaics 2014-01, Vol.4 (1), p.432-439
Main Authors: Rieutort-Louis, Warren, Liechao Huang, Yingzhe Hu, Sanz-Robinson, Josue, Wagner, Sigurd, Sturm, James C., Verma, Naveen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amorphous semiconductors
Batteries
battery management systems
energy-harvesting
flexible electronics
Lighting
P-i-n diodes
photovoltaic systems
Schottky diodes
Thin film transistors
thin-film circuits
Wireless communication
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Summary:Large-area electronics enables the creation of systems with transformational capabilities and form factors. Through the ability to integrate thin-film photovoltaics, batteries, and active transistors, complete power-management subsystems addressing a wide range of applications can also be created. We present, for the first time, a fully flexible system integrating amorphous silicon (a-Si) solar modules with Li-ion thin-film batteries and circuits that are based on a-Si thin-film transistors for battery management and wireless power delivery. A fabricated prototype of the entire system on a plastic sheet is demonstrated. Using a 240 cm 2 solar module under indoor lighting conditions (~400 μW/cm 2 ), the system is measured to provide 1) dc power (~1 mW) to on-sheet loads and 2) ac power (~10 mW) to off-sheet loads through wireless transmission. Four Li-ion batteries are used for on-sheet energy storage with a battery-management system ensuring discharging at permissible levels, while imposing minimal off-state current (
ISSN:2156-3381
2156-3403
DOI:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2285959