Recent advances in fiber-shaped and planar-shaped textile solar cells
Hatamvand, Mohammad (Fudan University. Center of Micro-Nano System)
Kamrani, Ehsan (Wellman Center for Photomedicine)
Lira-Cantu, Monica (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Madsen, Morten. (Mads Clausen Institute)
Patil, Bhushan R. (Mads Clausen Institute)
Vivo, Paola (Tampere University. Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences)
Mehmood, Muhammad Shahid (Fudan University. Center of Micro-Nano System)
Numan, Arshid (Graphene & Sunway University. School of Science and Technology)
Ahmed, Irfan (Government Postgraduate College. (Higher Education Department-HED) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Department of Physics)
Zhan, Yiqiang (Fudan University. Center of Micro-Nano System)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	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.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió sotmesa a revisió
Subject:	Electronic textiles ; Fiber -shaped solar cells ; Power harvesting ; Smart textiles ; Textile solar cells ; Wearable electronic devices
Published in:	Nano Energy, Vol. 71 (May 2020) , art. 104609, ISSN 2211-2855

DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104609

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