Recent advances in fiber-shaped and planar-shaped textile solar cells

During the last few years, textile solar cells with planar and fiber-shaped configurations have attracted enormous research interest. These flexible-type solar cells have a huge potential applicability in self-powered and battery-less electronics, which will impact many sectors, and particularly the...

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Autores: Hatamvand, Mohammad|||0000-0002-1331-3060, Kamrani, Ehsan, Lira-Cantu, Monica|||0000-0002-3393-7436, Madsen, Morten|||0000-0001-6503-0479, Patil, Bhushan R.|||0000-0001-7249-6330, Vivo, Paola, Mehmood, Muhammad Shahid, Numan, Arshid, Ahmed, Irfan, Zhan, Yiqiang
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:233966
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/233966
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104609
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electronic textiles
Fiber -shaped solar cells
Power harvesting
Smart textiles
Textile solar cells
Wearable electronic devices
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Sumario:During the last few years, textile solar cells with planar and fiber-shaped configurations have attracted enormous research interest. These flexible-type solar cells have a huge potential applicability in self-powered and battery-less electronics, which will impact many sectors, and particularly the Internet of Things. Textile solar cells are lightweight, super-flexible, formable, and foldable. Thus, they could be ideal power-harvester alternatives to common flexible solar cells required in smart textiles, electronic textiles, and wearable electronic devices. This review presents a brief overview on fiber-shaped and planar-shaped solar cells, and it introduces the most recent research reports on the different types of textile solar cells, including details on their fabrication techniques. It also addresses the current challenges and limitations of their technology development, and the encountered issues for their future application and integration in novel devices.