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Introducing flexible perovskites to the IoT world using photovoltaic-powered wireless tags
Sai Nithin Reddy Kantareddy, Rahul Bhattacharya, Sanjay E. Sarma +6
Billions of everyday objects could become part of the Internet of Things (IoT) by augmentation with low-cost, long-range, maintenance-free wireless sensors. Radio Frequency Identif…
Module-Power Prediction from PL Measurements using Deep Learning
Mathis Hoffmann, Johannes Hepp, Bernd Doll +5
The individual causes for power loss of photovoltaic modules are investigated for quite some time. Recently, it has been shown that the power loss of a module is, for example, rela…
Computer Vision Tool for Detection, Mapping and Fault Classification of PV Modules in Aerial IR Videos
Lukas Bommes, Tobias Pickel, Claudia Buerhop-Lutz +3
Increasing deployment of photovoltaics (PV) plants demands for cheap and fast inspection. A viable tool for this task is thermographic imaging by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In…
PV Modules and Their Backsheets -- A Case Study of a Multi-MW PV Power Station
Claudia Buerhop-Lutz, Oleksandr Stoyuk, Tobias Pickel +3
Degradation of backsheets (BS) and encapsulant polymer components of silicon PV modules is recognized as one of the main reasons for losses in PV plant performance and lifetime exp…
Joint Super-Resolution and Rectification for Solar Cell Inspection
Mathis Hoffmann, Thomas Köhler, Bernd Doll +6
Visual inspection of solar modules is an important monitoring facility in photovoltaic power plants. Since a single measurement of fast CMOS sensors is limited in spatial resolutio…
Deep Learning-based Pipeline for Module Power Prediction from EL Measurements
Mathis Hoffmann, Claudia Buerhop-Lutz, Luca Reeb +8
Automated inspection plays an important role in monitoring large-scale photovoltaic power plants. Commonly, electroluminescense measurements are used to identify various types of d…
Bridging the gap between photovoltaics R&D and manufacturing with data-driven optimization
Felipe Oviedo, Zekun Ren, Xue Hansong +12
Novel photovoltaics, such as perovskites and perovskite-inspired materials, have shown great promise due to high efficiency and potentially low manufacturing cost. So far, solar ce…
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…
The Impact of Global Warming on Silicon PV Energy Yield in 2100
Ian Marius Peters, Tonio Buonassisi
While the installed photovoltaic capacity grows to a terawatt scale, effects of global climate change unfold. The question arises, how a changing climate, and especially raising te…
On Climate Change and Photovoltaic Energy Production
Ian Marius Peters, Tonio Buonassisi
As the 21st century progresses, photovoltaic technology is becoming a major provider of the worlds electricity, while effects of global climate change unfold. This development begs…
Embedding Physics Domain Knowledge into a Bayesian Network Enables Layer-by-Layer Process Innovation for Photovoltaics
Zekun Ren, Felipe Oviedo, Muang Thway +15
Process optimization of photovoltaic devices is a time-intensive, trial and error endeavor, without full transparency of the underlying physics, and with user-imposed constraints t…
Revisiting Thin Silicon for Photovoltaics: A Technoeconomic Perspective
Zhe Liu, Sarah E. Sofia, Hannu S. Laine +4
Adopting thin Si wafers for PV reduces capital expenditure (capex) and manufacturing cost, and accelerates the growth of PV manufacturing. There are two key questions about thin Si…
Meeting Global Cooling Demand with Photovoltaics during the 21st Century
Hannu S. Laine, Jyri Salpakari, Erin E. Looney +3
Space conditioning, and cooling in particular, is a key factor in human productivity and well-being across the globe. During the 21st century, global cooling demand is expected to…
Accelerating Photovoltaic Materials Development via High-Throughput Experiments and Machine-Learning-Assisted Diagnosis
Shijing Sun, Noor T. P. Hartono, Zekun D. Ren +15
Accelerating the experimental cycle for new materials development is vital for addressing the grand energy challenges of the 21st century. We fabricate and characterize 75 unique h…
Urban Haze and Photovoltaics
I. M. Peters, S. Karthik, L. Haohui +2
Urban haze is a multifaceted threat. Foremost a major health hazard, it also affects the passage of light through the lower atmosphere. In this paper, we present a study addressing…