Highly Portable, Flexible Silicon Solar Cell Arrays for Polar Operations

太阳能电池作为一种替代电力来源具有独特的优势。该项目将展示高比功率、轻便、灵活、薄的硅太阳能电池。这些太阳能电池可以直接取代现有技术水平的硅太阳能电池，其效果是显著提高比功率、功率/面积和电源寿命。该提案描述了一种轻便、灵活、高性能的超薄硅太阳能电池，它将捕光器和石墨布衬底作为设备的组成部分。这种新型硅太阳能电池将被开发用于极地操作。硅层将通过电沉积的方式沉积。这些薄膜将展示其他薄膜太阳能电池设计的轻量化和灵活性，同时保持晶体硅的高性能。

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.