Visually Attractive and High-Power-Retention Solar Modules by Coloring with Automotive Paints
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Abstract
The automotive painting technique is highly advantageous for coloring solar modules, because it enables the modules to be visually attractive over a large area, numerous colors can be applied, and they are highly durable. Herein, we present a high-performance solar module colored using an automotive painting technique. We coated a dilute automotive pigment, the high-transmittance mica pigment, with a clear coat material on a crystalline Si solar module to generate blue color. Our measurements show that a pigment weight concentration of around 10% with the mica pigment is suitable for painting the solar modules, because it enables visual attractiveness while retaining over 80% of the output power, compared to the original solar module. We believe that the technique proposed herein can considerably increase the installable area of solar modules on a car body.
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OpenAlex topics: solar cell performance optimization · Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques · Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
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X-Frontier Division, Toyota Motor Corporation, 1200 Mishuku, Susono, Shizuoka 410-1193, Japan
Material Research Department, Toyota Research Institute of North America, 1555 Woodridge Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
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