Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Fabrics as Large-Scale Detectors for Textile Personal Protective Equipment in Active Laser Safety †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Section
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Active Safety Concept
3.2. Laser Protection Fabric
3.3. Solar Cells
3.4. Laser Protection Compound System
3.4.1. Solar Cells on Laser Protection Fabric
3.4.2. Validation of the Compound System
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Gawlik, A.; Brückner, U.; Schmidl, G.; Wagner, V.; Paa, W.; Plentz, J. Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Fabrics as Large-Scale Detectors for Textile Personal Protective Equipment in Active Laser Safety. Materials 2023, 16, 4841. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16134841
Gawlik A, Brückner U, Schmidl G, Wagner V, Paa W, Plentz J. Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Fabrics as Large-Scale Detectors for Textile Personal Protective Equipment in Active Laser Safety. Materials. 2023; 16(13):4841. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16134841
Chicago/Turabian StyleGawlik, Annett, Uwe Brückner, Gabriele Schmidl, Volker Wagner, Wolfgang Paa, and Jonathan Plentz. 2023. "Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Fabrics as Large-Scale Detectors for Textile Personal Protective Equipment in Active Laser Safety" Materials 16, no. 13: 4841. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16134841