Energy harvesting and storage systems (EHSS) for future AF vehicles are reviewed with emphasis on thermoelectics, organic materials, specifically, dye-sensitized solar cells and polymer batteries. The organic solar cells include solid-state organic solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The advantages of using such organic EHSS for AF vehicles are their specific performance, its scalability to larger skin area and low-temperature processing route, thus cost-effective however, there are several technical challenges preventing us to develop the organic EHSS in a speedy way.

Date Published: 29 April 2008
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6927, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2008, 692713 (29 April 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.778777

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6927:
Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2008
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Editor(s)