6 papers
Micro-transfer printing high-efficiency GaAs photovoltaic cells onto silicon for wireless power applications
Ian Mathews, David Quinn, John Justice +5
Here we report the development of high-efficiency microscale GaAs laser power converters, and their successful transfer printing onto silicon substrates, presenting a unique, high…
Techno-economic model of a second-life energy storage system for utility-scale solar power considering li-ion calendar and cycle aging
Ian Mathews, Bolun Xu, Wei He +3
While the use of energy storage combined with grid-scale photovoltaic power plants continues to grow, given current lithium-ion battery prices, there remains uncertainty about the…
Perovskite PV-powered RFID: enabling low-cost self-powered IoT sensors
Sai Nithin R. Kantareddy, Ian Mathews, Shijing Sun +6
Photovoltaic (PV) cells have the potential to serve as on-board power sources for low-power IoT devices. Here, we explore the use of perovskite solar cells to power Radio Frequency…
Long range battery-less PV-powered RFID tag sensors
Sai Nithin R. Kantareddy, Ian Mathews, Rahul Bhattacharyya +3
Communication range in passive Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) front-end devices is a critical barrier in the real-world implementation of this low-cost technology. Purely pa…
Self-powered sensors enabled by wide-bandgap perovskite indoor photovoltaic cells
Ian Mathews, Sai Nithin Reddy Kantareddy, Shijing Sun +7
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 backs…
Predicted annual energy yield of III-V/c-Si tandem solar cells: modelling the effect of changing spectrum on current-matching
Ian Mathews, Shenghui Lei, Ronan Frizzell
High efficiencies of >30% are predicted for series-connected tandem solar cells when current-matching is achieved between the wide-bandgap top cell and silicon bottom cell. Sub-cel…