Highly Portable, Flexible Silicon Solar Cell Arrays for Polar Operations

用于极地作业的高度便携、灵活的硅太阳能电池阵列

• 批准号: 9160348
• 负责人: Michael Mauk
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: AstroPower, Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-01-01 至 1992-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9160348&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Highly; Portable; Flexible; Silicon; Solar

Solar cells have unique advantages as an alternative source of electric power. This program will demonstrate high specific power, lightweight, flexible, thin silicon solar cells. These solar cells can be directly substituted for existing state of the art silicon solar cells with the effect of significantly improving specific power, power/area, and power supply life. The proposal describes a lightweight, flexible, high-performance, ultra-thin silicon solar cell that incorporates light-trapping and a graphite cloth substrate as an integral part of the device. This new type of silicon solar cell will be developed for polar operations. The silicon layers will be deposited by electro-deposition. These thin films will demonstrate the lightweight and flexibility of other thin film solar cell designs while maintaining the high performance of crystalline silicon.

太阳能电池作为替代电力来源具有独特的优势。 该项目将展示高比功率、轻质、柔性、薄硅太阳能电池。 这些太阳能电池可以直接替代现有最先进的硅太阳能电池，具有显着提高比功率、功率/面积和电源寿命的效果。 该提案描述了一种轻质、灵活、高性能、超薄的硅太阳能电池，该电池将光捕获和石墨布基板作为该设备的一个组成部分。 这种新型硅太阳能电池将专为极地作业而开发。 硅层将通过电沉积来沉积。 这些薄膜将展示其他薄膜太阳能电池设计的轻质性和灵活性，同时保持晶体硅的高性能。