![]() Currently, µPSCs based energy systems are costlier compared to their PV counterparts. Based on the design, we have considered the components needed and their costs to obtain total cost for developing energy systems using both PV and µPSC technologies. For both the cases, we have elucidated the steps in designing energy systems based on PV and µPSC technologies. To perform cost comparison, we considered two case studies, which are development of energy systems for: (i) A typical mobile-phone battery charging (low power application) and (ii) powering a humidity sensor (ultra-low power application). ![]() We also suggest avenues for the performance improvement of µPSC. In this work, we provide a cost comparison of micro-photosynthetic power cells (µPSC) with the well-established photovoltaic (PV) cells for ultra-low power and low power applications.
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