| 摘要 |
No glass, thin, low weight, portable/semi-portable solar PV panels are described. They are not for larger, permanently fixed installations, but are for solarizing outdoor consumer/industrial products. Thin (<3-10 mm), high power density, solar PV panels, custom designed for each target product using commercially available, highest efficiency range (18-23%) solar PV crystalline cells, which are encapsulated without glass, by long life (10-15+ years), flexible and high transparency encapsulation materials. This new technology allows manufacturing of solar PV crystalline cell panels and systems that are surface mounted on flat- or multi-curved surfaces. The thin PV crystalline cell panels have these advantages: rugged, portable, flexible or rigid, lightweight and long-life (10-15+ years). The majority of these thin and flexible PV crystalline panel applications are mostly of mini-panel size (0.01-100 Wp) but large sized (over 500 Wp) panels can be made and mounted on multi-curved surfaces on electric vehicles (land, water, and air). |
| 主权项 |
1. A thin (<3-10 mm), ‘no glass’, low weight (<30-70 g/Wp), high power density photovoltaic (PV) crystalline cell panel, comprising a plurality of solar PV crystalline cells,
which are connected together to form one or more solar cell strings, wherein the solar cell strings are connected together in series and/or parallel to form a solar cells system as required by panel design, wherein the solar PV crystalline cells are encapsulated in clear, flexible and durable encapsulating materials.
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