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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1527-1538 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Industrial Textiles |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2020.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council, TUBITAK, Program No: 2214/A.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| TUBITAK | 2214/A |
| Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council |
Keywords
- conductive fabric
- flexible photovoltaics
- organic photovoltaics
- solar textiles
- Wearable electronics
