L R AS Published on Sunday 19 January 2020 - n° 305 - Categories:cells
Stretchable silicon cells, while maintaining their efficiency
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia (KAUST) have created flexible crystalline silicon solar cells. They claim to have stretched the surface of a crystalline silicon cell
of approximately 95% while maintaining a conversion efficiency of approximately 19%.
They coated the back of a rigid crystalline cell with ecoflex, a highly extensible elastomer. They laser cut the cell into rectangular silicon islands which were then bonded to the elastomer support. They then stretched the original cell in both directions by up to 95%.
PV Magazine of 13 January
