Designing Indoor Solar Products
Photovoltaic Technologies for AES
Chapter One
State of the Art
1.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter is structured in two parts. Firstly, the available knowledge with regard to
low-power energy sources is examined (section 1.2). This review indicates that solar (photovoltaic)
cells have a number of advantages within this group. For the example of indoor
photovoltaic (IPV) products, therefore, the intellectual property (section 1.3) and IPV taxonomies
(section 1.4) are investigated. These are presented with respect to their generic
parameters. The links between the different taxonomies are summarised in Table 1.3 and
show the wealth of information that may be available at the beginning of an IPV design
project.
In the second part of this chapter, the areas where information is less complete are
considered as well as how this book proposes to fill these gaps (see section 1.5).
1.2 LOW-POWER ENERGY SOURCES
The trend of the number of electronic devices per person, in the first world at least, has
been steadily increasin ... read full excerpt from Designing Indoor Solar Products ebook
