Fiber solar cells can be worn on the body is very magical

Talking of solar cells, perhaps most people think of a piece of solar collectors edition on distant Mahler Gobi Desert. Recently, a team of global engineers, chemists, physicists invented a fiber solar cells. These batteries are thinner than human hair, but manufacturing is electricity to favorably with those solar panels. The U.S. military was prepared to put this technology added to the uniforms the soldiers family are solar rechargeable batteries.

In essence, this fiber product is actually started by ordinary glass optical fiber research and development. The researchers used high-pressure chemical vapor deposition technique (not Pro Anyway, I do not know), n, i, p-type amorphous silicon implanted optical fiber, optical fiber has been collected solar energy functions. Functional sense and is not common solar battery What is different, is to generate electricity by photoelectric effect. But almost all the solar battery on the market are produced into a flat plate, and all of the amorphous silicon is mounted on a glass substrate, and such an optical fiber solar battery does not have this limitation, naturally have a soft characteristic.

The head of the research team from Penn State University, John Badding, John just announced that they have made a few meters long fiber solar cells, the technology has been able to produce more than ten meters of solar cells, and this length has sufficient clothes sewing. Badding said wearable mounted to the soldiers in the uniformed military introduced in this material chanting supply very interested, but have not been able to find the right solar panel optical fiber mixed woven fiber, which we can see from the picture paragraph fiber has a good flexibility, but the wear resistance of the material it is unable to get the test, after the clothes are portable wearable uniformed abrasion resistance requirements are high.

Look to the future, if such a malleable material is very promising, in basic practical for daily use field, you can imagine the hats and T-shirts to the use of this material, we can walk and charging for iPhone . On the other hand now bionic transplant technology equipment are faced with the difficult problem of function, this wearable for energy can solve a lot of medical problems.

These fibers, there are two potential functions we need to further tap. Because of its 3D nature of the means may be formed at any angle to collect solar cell energy, and does not render the efficiency of the attenuation with the angle becomes. If the version of the traditional solar turn over will be useless, lost at least half of the efficiency. Pier Sazio, another member of the research team, said they use the same method successfully implanted fiber photodetector. Sazio no specific description may achieve. Imagination: a wearable computer, but you can play the full realization of solar features, running freely.