Abstract
New trends for making an all-weather photovoltaic (PV) that is able to trigger by both sunlight and raindrops become trends in developing the solar energy systems to generate electricity for households, industries and buildings. The idea is to develop a hybrid device that harvests kinetic energy from water without destroying the output of the solar cell during sunny times. This paper reviews the two devices of hybrid sunlight and raindrops, namely are the Triboelectric Nano Generator (TENG) and Pseudo Capacitor Graphene Layer (PCGL), respectively. Both TENG and PCGL similarly in such way places two transparent polymer layers on top of PV cell. When raindrops fall on to the layers and then roll off, the friction generates a static electricity charge. In addition, these devices even could provide electricity at night whenever there is rain. These two trends of all-weather PV obviously have advantages and drawbacks, as they have been developed in order to make them more compact and efficient as the device that harvesting sunlight during dry seasons and rainfall during wet seasons both for days and nights.
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