Solar Textiles: The Flexible Solution for Solar Power (Textile Institute Professional Publications) 1st Edition by John Wilson 9781000782899 1000782891

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• ISBN 10: 1000782891
• ISBN 13: 9781000782899
• Author:   John Wilson 

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.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 The Versatility of Textile Fabrics

Chapter 2 The Photovoltaic Effect and How It Is Used

Chapter 3 Constructions of Textile Fabrics

Chapter 4 Strategies for Achieving Electrically Conducting Textile Fabrics

Chapter 5 Enabling Textile Fabrics to Become Photovoltaically Active

Chapter 6 Technological and Design Specifications

Chapter 7 Manufacturing: Moving from Laboratory to Production

Chapter 8 Applications of Solar Textile Fabrics

Chapter 9 The Outlook for Solar Textiles

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