Origami-enabled deformable silicon solar cells

Journal Article · Mon Feb 24 04:00:00 EST 2014 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866145· OSTI ID:22293109

Tang, Rui; Huang, Hai; Liang, Hanshuang; Liang, Mengbing ^[1]; Tu, Hongen; Xu, Yong ^[2]; Song, Zeming; Jiang, Hanqing ^[3]; Yu, Hongyu ^[1]

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1. School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 (United States)
2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, 5050 Anthony Wayne Dr., Detroit, Michigan 48202 (United States)
3. School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 (United States)

Deformable electronics have found various applications and elastomeric materials have been widely used to reach flexibility and stretchability. In this Letter, we report an alternative approach to enable deformability through origami. In this approach, the deformability is achieved through folding and unfolding at the creases while the functional devices do not experience strain. We have demonstrated an example of origami-enabled silicon solar cells and showed that this solar cell can reach up to 644% areal compactness while maintaining reasonable good performance upon cyclic folding/unfolding. This approach opens an alternative direction of producing flexible, stretchable, and deformable electronics.

• OSTI ID: 22293109
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 104; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ELASTOMERS
FLEXIBILITY
SILICON SOLAR CELLS
STRAINS