Development of an indoor photovoltaic energy harvesting module for autonomous sensors in building air quality applications

X Yue, M Kauer, M Bellanger, O Beard… - IEEE Internet of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 50 mm× 20 mm× 15 mm indoor photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting power module
(IPEHPM) has been developed for powering an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor node …

Low-temperature growth of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide solar cell by inductively coupled plasma deposition toward high conversion efficiency in indoor …

MH Kao, CH Shen, P Yu, WH Huang, YL Chueh… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
A pa-SiC: H window layer was used in amorphous Si thin film solar cells to boost the
conversion efficiency in an indoor lighting of 500 lx. The pa-SiC: H window layer/pa-Si: H …

Use of amorphous silicon for active photonic devices

FG Della Corte, S Rao - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is a new emerging and disruptive technology aimed at using cost-effective
silicon-based materials for the generation, control, and detection of modulated light signals …

A 10.16% Efficiency On-Chip Solar Cells With Analytical Model Based on a Standard Bulk CMOS Process for Self-Powered Microsensors

J Guan, J Liu, Z Li, W Mo, K Sun… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting systems can power microsensors by harvesting energy from the
environment. On-chip solar cells made by photodiodes serve as crucial components for …

NH4OH-B Silicon Texturing of Periodic V-Groove Channels, Upright, and Inverted Pyramids Structures

HS Alvarez, AR Silva, LCJ Espínola… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Periodic V-grooves channels, upright, and inverted pyramids structures were texturized on
monocrystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates using ammonium hydroxide (NH 4 OH) solution …

Perfect plasmonic absorbers for photovoltaic applications

M Omelyanovich, Y Ra'di, C Simovski - Journal of Optics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel regime of perfect absorption in a thin plasmonic layer corresponds to a collective
mode of an array of plasmonic nanospheres. In our theoretical study we show that the …

Low-temperature deposition of high-quality silicon oxynitride films for CMOS-integrated optics

B Rangarajan, AY Kovalgin, K Wörhoff, J Schmitz - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The growth of silicon oxynitride thin films applying remote inductively coupled, plasma-
enhanced chemical vapor deposition is optimized toward high optical quality at a deposition …

Series-connected and shade-resilient silicon photovoltaic module for direct laser powering

YJ Hung, JF Liao, YC Cheng - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We achieve series-connected and shade-resilient silicon photovoltaic (PV) module by
connecting Schottky bypass diodes to cascaded PV cells in parallel with a reverse polarity …

Solar-powered energy-autonomous silicon-on-insulator device

SW Bedell, B Hekmatshoartabari, DK Sadana… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A solar-powered autonomous CMOS circuit structure is fab ricated with
monolithically integrated photovoltaic solar cells. The structure includes a device layer …

Design optimization of photovoltaic cell stacking in a triple-well CMOS process

G Hong, G Han - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various self-powered devices employ energy-harvesting technology to capture and store an
ambient energy. The photovoltaic (PV) cell is one of the most preferred approaches due to …