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Rodney Amen
Energy Harvesting Industry Session at APEC 2017 Alta Devices, Inc.
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Sponsored by the PSMA Energy Efficiency Committee
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a-Si µc-Si
•Rigid
•Flexible •Cost competitive
•Low cost •Very common material
•Low efficiency
CdTe
•Rigid
•Established thin-
Depends on the application film technology
•Cost competitive
GaAs
Organic •Thin-film technology c-Si
•Flexible •Rigid
•Moisture •Flexible •Industry
sensitive •World record efficiency standard solar
•Low cost material
(theory) •Higher cost (today)
•Low efficiency
CIGS
•Flexible
•Emerging thin-film
technology
•Moisture sensitive
•Low cost (theory)
• Solar cell
• Energy harvesting IC
• Energy Storage
• Sensors and other electronics
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How Much Solar?
1. Calculate the load’s average 1. Example 1 mW-Hrs.
energy consumption in a 24
hour day in Watt-Hours
2. 1 mW-Hrs / 80% = 1.25 mW-Hrs.
2. Divide by the battery
efficiency (about 80%)
3. 1.25 mW-Hrs / 80% = 1.56 mW-Hrs.
3. Divide by the energy
harvesting electronics Result is the solar energy needed in one
efficiency (about 80%) day in W-Hrs.
4. Estimate the number of hours 4. Example 12 Hrs.
of light (ie. how long the lights
are turned on) 5. 1.56 mW-Hrs. / 12 Hrs. = 130 µW
5. Divide solar energy needed Result is the solar power needed
by the lighted hours
A single 10 cm² GaAs solar cell can harvest 130 µW in 100-200 Lux
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Choose an Energy Harvesting Device
Analog Devices ST Microelectronics
‣ Analog Devices ADP5090 is ‣ The SPV1050 is an ultra-low
power and high-efficiency
an ultra-low power, boost dc- energy harvester and battery
to-dc converter. charger
‣ The ADP5091 is a newer ‣ The SPV1040 is a low power,
device with faster startup step-up converter with
embedded Perturb and
Observe MPPT algorithm,
Texas Instruments
‣ BQ25504 ultralow power EM Microelectronics
energy harvesters and
charger ‣ EM8500 is an integrated
‣ BQ25505 for primary battery power management solution
extension designs for ultra-low power
‣ BQ25570 adds an integrated applications in the μW to mW
buck regulator. range.