A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

Borazan İ., BEDELOĞLU A., Demir A.

JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES, cilt.51, sa.10, ss.1527-1538, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 51 Sayı: 10
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/1528083720904053
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Compendex
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1527-1538
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: conductive fabric, flexible photovoltaics, organic photovoltaics, solar textiles, Wearable electronics
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.