Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional glass or polycarbon-ate 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 wide-spread 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 combina-tion of textile manufacturing and solar PV cell technology opens up further avenues for both the textile and semiconductor industries. Thus, this book reflects the pro-gressively increasing commercial interest in PV cell technology and the versatility that their integration in textiles provides.
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