A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

İsmail Borazan; Ayse C. Bedeloglu; Ali Demir

doi:10.1177/1528083720904053

A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

İsmail Borazan^*
, Ayse C. Bedeloglu
, Ali Demir

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Textile Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
Bartin University
Bursa Teknik University

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	1527-1538
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Industrial Textiles
Volume	51
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1528083720904053
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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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.

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TUBITAK	2214/A
Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Wearable electronics
conductive fabric
flexible photovoltaics
organic photovoltaics
solar textiles

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A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

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