Self-powered sensors enabled by wide-bandgap perovskite indoor photovoltaic cells
| Autor: | Mathews, Ian, Kantareddy, Sai Nithin Reddy, Sun, Shijing, Layurova, Mariya, Thapa, Janak, Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo, Bhattacharyya, Rahul, Buonassisi, Tonio, Sarma, Sanjay, Peters, Ian Marius |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 1904072 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1002/adfm.201904072 |
| Popis: | We present a new approach to ubiquitous sensing for indoor applications, using high-efficiency and low-cost indoor perovksite photovoltaic cells as external power sources for backscatter sensors. We demonstrate wide-bandgap perovskite photovoltaic cells for indoor light energy harvesting with the 1.63eV and 1.84 eV devices demonstrate efficiencies of 21% and 18.5% respectively under indoor compact fluorescent lighting, with a champion open-circuit voltage of 0.95 V in a 1.84 eV cell under a light intensity of 0.16 mW/cm2. Subsequently, we demonstrate a wireless temperature sensor self-powered by a perovskite indoor light-harvesting module. We connect three perovskite photovoltaic cells in series to create a module that produces 14.5 uW output power under 0.16 mW/cm2 of compact fluorescent illumination with an efficiency of 13.2%. We use this module as an external power source for a battery-assisted RFID temperature sensor and demonstrate a read range by of 5.1 meters while maintaining very high frequency measurements every 1.24 seconds. Our combined indoor perovskite photovoltaic modules and backscatter radio-frequency sensors are further discussed as a route to ubiquitous sensing in buildings given their potential to be manufactured in an integrated manner at very low-cost, their lack of a need for battery replacement and the high frequency data collection possible. Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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