Photovoltaic Applications in Light Communication Systems
I. Skourtis (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Patrizio Manganiello (TU Delft - Photovoltaic Materials and Devices)
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Abstract
This thesis project explores the role of photovoltaics in visible light communication (VLC). It focuses on the development of a theoretical model suitable for the study of various photovoltaic (PV) technologies in their role as a receiver in light communication systems. These photovoltaic technologies are characterized based on the energy which they are able to harvest as well as their bandwidth, to quantify the achievable transfer rate for the different photovoltaic technologies. The AC equivalent circuit is considered, where the solar cell capacitance depends on its operating point. A fitting is made of the model with the experimental results in order to estimate the dynamic parameters of different solar cells that were already available in the laboratory of the Photovoltaic Materials and Devices (PVMD) group. To characterize the dynamic behavior of solar cells, an ad-hoc test bench will be realized.