The SPV1040 step-up dc/dc converter targets solar battery chargers for portable applications and employ Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), a technique for collecting the maximum possible energy from ...

Solar charging of batteries has recently become very popular. A solar cell’s typical voltage is 0.7 V. Many panels have eight cells in series and are therefore capable of producing 5.6 V at most. This ...

Promising to recover lost power due to solar-panel variables, the SPV1020 dc/dc boost converter is reportedly the industry’s first to combine power-optimization and power-conversion functions for ...

Enabling portable products to draw power from solar and micro-fuel cells, the TPS61200 step-up converter with an integrated 1.5A switch operates with input voltages below 0.3V. The device supports ...

Over the past decade, photovoltaic cells (PCs) have garnered much attention worldwide as promising sources of renewable energy. However, PCs still have not achieved light-to-electricity conversion ...

SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has published research on an ultraviolet-wavelength-driven solar spectral converter that can be placed on top of photovoltaic cells to boost ...