A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

İsmail Borazan*, Ayse C. Bedeloglu, Ali Demir

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Abstract

Solar energy is one of the most popular energy sources among the other renewable energies. Photovoltaic technology is a clean way to generate electricity from sunlight. Flexible photovoltaics enable portable electronic devices to power at off-grid conditions. Stainless steel mesh fabric was used as a substrate and electrode allowing the light to reach the photoactive layer. The photoactive layer and hole transport layer were deposited by the means of dip-coating like in the textile industry. The metal back electrode was evaporated in a thermal evaporator under vacuum. Promising results were obtained from photovoltaic measurements. About 0.69% power conversion efficiency was obtained from textile-based solar cells in this study. The textile-based metal fabric enables a flexible photovoltaic structure that can be integrated on non-planar surfaces to generate electricity, and also mesh structure allows the light to reach the photoactive layer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1527-1538
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Industrial Textiles
Volume51
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

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Keywords

  • conductive fabric
  • flexible photovoltaics
  • organic photovoltaics
  • solar textiles
  • Wearable electronics

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