Issue 14, 2021

Challenges and prospects of ambient hybrid solar cell applications

Abstract

The impending implementation of billions of Internet of Things and wireless sensor network devices has the potential to be the next digital revolution, if energy consumption and sustainability constraints can be overcome. Ambient photovoltaics provide vast universal energy that can be used to realise near-perpetual intelligent IoT devices which can directly transform diffused light energy into computational inferences based on artificial neural networks and machine learning. At the same time, a new architecture and energy model needs to be developed for IoT devices to optimize their ability to sense, interact, and anticipate. We address the state-of-the-art materials for indoor photovoltaics, with a particular focus on dye-sensitized solar cells, and their effect on the architecture of next generation IoT devices and sensor networks.

Graphical abstract: Challenges and prospects of ambient hybrid solar cell applications

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
25 noy 2020
Accepted
03 mar 2021
First published
09 mar 2021
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 5002-5015

Challenges and prospects of ambient hybrid solar cell applications

H. Michaels, I. Benesperi and M. Freitag, Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 5002 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC06477G

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