Flexible solar panels made of ultra thin silicon cells have been around for a while.
How to make flexible solar panels.
The watt price of the flexible solar panels is higher than the rigid panels.
Cheaper panels will use a polymer called polyethylene terephthalate while better panels will use etfe ethylene tetrafluoroethylene.
Now what you need to keep in mind is that the flexible solar panels make use of monocrystalline wafers.
Afterward i took the panel outside in the sun to test the voltage current of the whole panel to make sure i was getting 18 volts and 3 5 amps in an open circuit and short circuit.
To help give the inside of the solar panel a nicer look i used 2 strips of wiremold and ran the wires inside those.
In order to make a flexible solar panel those silicon wafers must be sliced down to just a few micrometers wide.
Flexible solar panels are constructed by sandwiching the solar cells between layers of a polymer.