A Current Supply with Single Organic Thin-Film Transistor for Charging SupercapacitorsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: THIN FILM TRANSISTORS 13 (TFT 13), ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC , 2016, Vol. 75, no 10, p. 217-222Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We present a current supply, comprising a single organic thin-film transistor (OTFT), for the charging of supercapacitors. The current supply takes power from the electric grid (115 V AC, US standard), converts the AC voltage to a quasi-constant DC current (similar to 0.1 mA) regardless of the impedance of the load, and charges the supercapacitor. Solution-processed OTFTs based on the popular polymeric semiconductor poly(3-hexylthiophene- 2,5-diyl) have been developed to rectify the 115 V AC voltage. A diodeconfigured OTFT was used as a half-wave rectifier. The single OTFT current supply was demonstrated to charge a 220 mF supercapacitor to 1 V directly using 115 V AC voltage as the input. This work paves the road towards all-printable supercapacitor energy-storage systems with integrated chargers, which enable direct charging from a power outlet.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC , 2016. Vol. 75, no 10, p. 217-222
Series
ECS Transactions, ISSN 1938-5862
National Category
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139927DOI: 10.1149/07510.0217ecstISI: 000406512700030ISBN: 978-1-60768-727-6 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-139927DiVA, id: diva2:1135158
Conference
13th Symposium on Thin Film Transistor Technologies (TFT)
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research through the project Large-area light-emission on the roll; Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research through the project SiOS
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