10.5258/SOTON/376690
Arumugam, Sasikumar
Sasikumar
Arumugam
Li, Yi
Yi
Li
Sundaram, Senthilarasu
Senthilarasu
Sundaram
Torah, Russel
Russel
Torah
Kanibolotsky, Alexander L
Alexander L
Kanibolotsky
Inigo, Anto
Anto
Inigo
Skabara, Peter J
Peter J
Skabara
Beeby, Stephen
Stephen
Beeby
Dataset for Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabric for wearable energy harvesting applications
Unknown
2016
Energy harvesting textiles
Solar textiles
fabric solar cells
organic semiconductors
Dataset
This paper presents the novel use of spray coating to fabricate organic solar cells on fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications. The surface roughness of standard woven 65/35 polyester cotton fabric used in this work is of the order of 150 µm and this is reduced to few microns by a screen printed interface layer. This pre-treated fabric substrate with reduced surface roughness was used as the target substrate for the spray coated fabric organic solar cells that contains multiple layers of electrodes and active materials. A fully spray coated photovoltaic (PV) devices fabricated on fabric substrates has been successfully demonstrated with comparable power conversion efficiency to the glass based counterparts. All PV devices are characterised under simulated AM 1.5 conditions. Device morphologies were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This approach is potentially suitable for the low cost integration of PV devices into clothing and other decorative textiles.