Photo-Supercapacitor
S. Vadivel, S. Hariganesh, Pothu Ramyakrishna, Rajender Boddula
In this modern technology-based world, the consumption of electric energy has increased as most part of our day to day life is connected with electricity simply starting from telecommunication devices to laptops and computers. As energy demand increased the energy production needs to be increased but unfortunately as the fossil fuels are being depleted we are in the situation to turn to more renewable energy sources, especially solar energy could be utilised and transformed to electric energy via solar powered cells. However, the problems arise related to the fluctuation of sunlight and its unmatched energy production. Hence, energy produced by solar cells should be stored using energy storage devices. This thought sparked the idea of integrating a solar cell with a supercapacitor, where energy produced by the solar cell will be stored by the capacitor and so it was termed as photo-supercapacitor. In this chapter we discussed basic working, progressive timeline and the future scope in this fascinating field.
Keywords
Photosupercapacitor, Dye sentisied Solar Cell, Supercapacitor, Pervoskite Solar Cell
Published online 11/5/2019, 10 pages
Citation: S. Vadivel, S. Hariganesh, Pothu Ramyakrishna, Rajender Boddula, Photo-Supercapacitor, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 61, pp 223-232, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900499-9
Part of the book on Supercapacitor Technology
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