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What happens if a solar module is folded?
When the solar modules subjected to folding, the Jsc started to decrease and gradually saturated at around 4 mA cm -2 after 10 cycles of folding/unfolding, while the Voc almost remained constant throughout 40 times folding/unfolding, as shown in Figure 3D. Foldable solar cells with crease in the predesigned place.
How to build highly foldable solar cells?
The key requirements to construct highly foldable solar cells, including structure design based on tuning the neutral axis plane, and adopting flexible alternatives including substrates, transparent electrodes and absorbers, are intensively discussed.
What factors influence the foldability of solar cells?
Besides the substrates and transparent electrodes, the mechanical properties of absorber layer also significantly influence the foldability of solar cells. Firstly, the mechanical properties, especially the Young's module and hardness of different kinds of absorber are various.
Why are foldable solar cells important?
However, due to the advantages of size compactness and shape transformation, they have unique applications such as portable and wearable electricity supplier, as well as building, transportation and agriculture integrated photovoltaics. The development of highly foldable and efficient solar cells is of great importance.
What is folding induced crack and delamination in solar cells?
For the solar cells with multilayers, the folding induced crack and delamination may firstly occur in active layer or interface, depending on the stress distribution in the device during folding, the crack onset stress of each functional layers, as well as the bonding at the interface.
Are foldable solar cells a future development?
In the end, some perspectives for the future development of foldable solar cells, especially the standard folding procedure, improvement in the folding endurance through revealing failure mechanism, are provided.