Solar Textiles The Flexible Solution for Solar Power
“Solar Textiles: The Flexible Solution for Solar Power” by Robert Mather, published by CRC Press on November 21, 2022, is a comprehensive exploration of integrating solar cells with textile fabrics. This 109-page book addresses the limitations of traditional photovoltaic installations, which often rely on heavy materials, by presenting textiles as a lightweight and flexible alternative for solar power generation. Mather discusses the photovoltaic effect, the role of textiles as electrical substrates, and the manufacturing methods that extend beyond conventional semiconductor technology.
Readers will find detailed insights into the operational aspects of solar cells on textiles, including comparisons of various fibers and fabrics suitable for photovoltaic applications. The book emphasizes the growing commercial interest in combining textile manufacturing with solar technology, highlighting unique applications that textiles can offer in the energy sector. Aimed at professionals in fields such as textile technology, electronic engineering, and architecture, this edition serves as a valuable resource for those looking to understand the intersection of fashion, design, and renewable energy.
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Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional glass or polycarbonate panels, and even newly developed thin plastic or metal films for PV cell use may fracture during both construction and application. Textile fabrics, the most widespread flexible materials in everyday use, offer a solution to the need for lightweight, flexible solar PV generators. Solar Textiles: The Flexible Solution for Solar Power is about the incorporation and operation of solar cells on textile fabrics. The combination of textile manufacturing and solar PV cell technology opens up further avenues for both the textile and semiconductor industries. Thus, this book reflects the progressively increasing commercial interest in PV cell technology and the versatility that their integration in textiles provides.
- Discusses textiles as electrical substrates
- Explains the photovoltaic effect and associated parameters
- Offers special consideration of solar cells on textiles
- Compares fibres and fabrics and how to implement PV activity on a textile
- Describes manufacturing methods outside of semiconductor technology
- Includes applications open only to textiles
This work is aimed at textile technologists, electronic engineers, solar technologists, civil engineers and designers in building fabrics and architecture.
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