Thin Film Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Technology
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2021) | Viewed by 438
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flexible ambient-light energy-harvesters and electronics; low-cost TSV-free monolithic 3D-ICs; energy-saving MEMS sensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on "Thin Film Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Technology". The wearable device equipped with energy harvesters to acquire the extra energy from the environmental sources has become an important application to fulfill the request on light and compact integration for IoT applications. Light as the largest ambient energy source is well used to generate the renewable electricity by many efficient energy harvesting technologies. The future research efforts will especially focus on the development of full-time, low-cost, high-efficiency, and flexible thin film photovoltaic energy harvesting technologies under ambient light environment besides sunlight. Any thin film photovoltaic energy harvesting technology that can show its advantage of obtaining an enhanced efficiency in obtaining high output power under ambient light environment is important for driving the RF-tags, sensors and wireless components in the IoT chips.
In this respect, a special emphasis will be placed on new data/concepts related to attractive technologies for flexible thin film photovoltaic energy harvesting technology, for example, CIGS/CZTS, a-Si:H, organic and Perovskite-based thin film photovoltaic technologies, as well as other emerging thin film photovoltaic technologies for ambient light energy harvesting for IoT applications.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Flexible CIGS/CZTS or a-Si:H-based photovoltaic energy harvesting
- Flexible organic photovoltaic energy harvesting
- Flexible Perovskite photovoltaic energy harvesting
- Emerging photovoltaic technology for ambient light energy harvesting
Dr. Jia-Min Shieh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photovoltaic energy harvesting
- CIGS
- CZTS
- a-Si:H
- organic
- Perovskite
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