'Consensus Statement' for the Testing of Flexible PV Devices

This 'consensus statement' led by Kenjiro FUKUDA and Osbel Almora aims to promote consistency in the testing of flexible photovoltaic (PV) devices, allowing more meaningful comparisons and better reproducibility.

Flexible PV devices are a promising research field with potential for wearable, portable, indoor, and internet-of-things applications. Substantial progress has been made in recent years, with flexible emerging PV reporting power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of over 24%. Yet, there is a need for a unifying protocol to assess PV performance, compare research results, and evaluate state-of-the-art achievements in flexible PV. Here we present a protocol for measuring PCE over 1,000 bending cycles under 1% strain. Moreover, several good-practice guidelines are proposed, including those related to bending procedures, flexibility testing with and without encapsulation, and ambient conditions during testing (e.g. temperature, humidity, and illumination). Notably, the importance of the uniform application of the bending radius and the testing of parallel and perpendicular orientations of the bending axis with respect to the direction of the electric current are emphasized.

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Kenjiro FUKUDA , Lulu Sun, Baocal Du, Masahito Takakuwa, Jiachen Wang, Takao Someya , Lluis F. Marsal , Yinhua Zhou , Yiwang Chen, Hongzheng Chen, Professor Ravi Silva FREng CBE , Derya Baran , Luigi Castriotta, Thomas M. Brown , Changduk Yang , Weiwei Li, Anita Ho-Baillie , Thomas Österberg , Nitin Padture , Karen Forberich , Christoph Josef Brabec , and Osbel Almora