Lightricity is using an inorganic crystalline compound semiconductor on a range of substrates to produce high efficiency solar cells that work with indoor lighting for IoT applications.
It has teamed up with solid state battery developer Ilika and energy harvesting chip maker e-peas on reference designs for its rigid cells.
“What Lightricity offers is a new very efficient light harvesting technology particularly for ambient lighting,” said co-founder Mattias Kauer. “The advantage of our technology is that it is 3 to 6x more efficient than what is currently available to product designers. There are some other benefits in aesthetics with the colour and advantages in higher output voltage as you don’t need to boost the voltage and a high dynamic range with the light levels it can work with from 10 lux to 1000 lux.”