50 results about "Solar technology" patented technology

The application relates to the technical field of solar energy, in particular to a self-cleaning solar photovoltaic panel and a preparation process thereof. The application adds anhydrous ethanol, ammonia water, deionized water, methyl triethoxysilane, tetraethyl orthosilicate and octadecyl trimethoxysilane to prepare silica sol. Then, tetra(2-hydroxyethoxy)silane, polypropylene glycol, toluene diisocyanate, betulin, 3,4-diamino furazan, silica sol and a catalyst stannous octoate are added to prepare a polymer. Glass, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a cell piece and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer are sequentially laid in layers; the laminated assembly is assembled with a frame to obtain a solar photovoltaic panel. Finally, a coating is prepared by taking the polymer as a raw material, and the coating is coated on the solar photovoltaic panel to obtain a finished product. The finished product has good hydrophobicity and antibacterial property, and therefore has a wide application prospect.

The invention relates to the technical field of solar energy, and particularly discloses a bus bar assembly method, a battery string, a battery string arrangement piece and a photovoltaic module, and the bus bar and battery string assembly method comprises the following steps: arranging a plurality of battery strings at intervals along a first direction; wherein each battery string comprises a plurality of battery pieces arranged along the second direction, and a plurality of positive electrode welding strips and a plurality of negative electrode welding strips which are arranged in a staggered manner along the first direction; the plurality of positive electrode patches are correspondingly pasted on the positive electrode welding strip one by one, and positive electrode pasting gaps are reserved in the positive electrode patches at the joints with the bus bars; the plurality of positive electrode pasting gaps are arranged at intervals along a first direction; the plurality of negative electrode patches are attached to the negative electrode welding strip in a one-to-one correspondence manner; bus bars are arranged in an extending mode in the first direction and placed on the battery pieces, and the bus bars are electrically connected with the positive electrode welding strips through the positive electrode pasting notches; and the fixed sticking pieces are stuck on the bus bars and the battery pieces. The method solves the problem of subfissure of the battery piece, and improves the rate of finished products.

The application discloses a solar array simulator equalization power supply and distribution control system, and relates to the technical field of solar energy, which comprises a first photovoltaic module, a second photovoltaic module, a low-voltage detection module, an electric energy transmission module, a voltage stabilizing module, a first energy storage module, a second energy storage module, an isolation voltage transformation module, an equalization module and a micro-control module. The solar array simulator equalization power supply and distribution control system can improve energy storage efficiency and control voltage balance, improve the utilization rate of electric energy and prolong the service life.

The application relates to an organic carrier for conductive silver paste, a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of crystalline silicon solar energy. The organic carrier comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.1-6.0 wt% of an elastic resin, 0.5-20.0 wt% of a thickening agent, 70.0-95.0 wt% of an organic solvent and 0.05-5.0 wt% of a first additive; wherein the elastic resin is a polystyrene-polyolefin block copolymer. The polystyrene-polyolefin block copolymer is used in the organic carrier to replace a traditional polyamide wax thixotropic agent, effectively solves the printing durability problem of the paste, can maintain stable photoelectric conversion efficiency of a solar cell piece, and does not need to be cleaned and wiped due to screen blockage during the printing process, thereby avoiding the trouble of shutdown. Meanwhile, the grid line has a high aspect ratio, thereby improving the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cell.

The utility model discloses a photovoltaic module fastening device, a photovoltaic module frame and a photovoltaic module, and belongs to the technical field of photovoltaic solar energy. The photovoltaic module fastening device comprises a pressing block, the top of the pressing block is a pressure bearing portion, and a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion or a supporting portion are arranged below the pressure bearing portion. The first pressing part, the second pressing part and the supporting part are all of a plate-shaped structure, and a receding part is arranged between the first pressing part and the second pressing part or the supporting part. Protruding points are arranged at the ends, away from the pressure bearing part, of the first pressing part and the second pressing part or the supporting part. The pressing block is high in bearing capacity, stable and free of shaking. According to the photovoltaic module provided by the utility model, the mounting groove is formed in the frame, and the fastening device is used, so that the photovoltaic module can be firmly and stably mounted without shaking under severe weather conditions, and the problem that a glass surface of a full-screen module is fragile under the action of a conventional pressing block is solved through the matched use of the pressing block and the mounting groove.

The present application relates to the technical field of solar energy, and discloses a solar inverter with a heat dissipation structure, which comprises a casing, a heat dissipation fan, a wiring terminal, a ventilation grille, a control element, a transformer, a power inversion module, heat dissipation fins and a photovoltaic panel. The control element is coupled with a toothed air duct control system, which generates toothed channel thermal resistance values and grille resistance values based on toothed inlet temperature, toothed outlet temperature, toothed channel pressure difference and power inversion module electric power state through a toothed thermal resistance construction module. Two heat dissipation fan rotation speeds are distributed according to the toothed channel thermal resistance values and the temperature difference between the two toothed outlet temperatures through a double-fan bias control module. When the grille resistance reaches a trigger condition, the two heat dissipation fans form an alternating rotation speed pulse through a grille resistance cleaning module, and the allowed output power of the power inversion module is linked and controlled through an inversion output coordination module.

The application provides a kind of space solar power station multifunctional condenser structure design method, device and equipment, it is related to space solar technology field.The method comprises the following steps: S101, obtain predefined condenser layered configuration information and photovoltaic cell panel configuration information;S102, by support layer configuration information, adopt closed non-uniform rational B spline method to construct the topological structure of condenser support layer;S103, based on topological structure and condenser layered configuration information, the support layer structure performance and support layer thermal performance are calculated;S104, the optical performance of condenser is calculated using support layer structure performance;S105, the steps S102-S104 are executed in a cycle until reaching the preset iteration number, form multiple condenser parameter groups;S106, the condenser parameter group is substituted into the pre-constructed multi-objective optimization model in turn, and the multifunctional condenser structure design parameter is obtained by optimization.In this way, the long-term reliability of the multifunctional condenser is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of solar energy, and particularly relates to a solar panel supporting assembly which comprises a supporting assembly body, a mounting frame assembly, a driving assembly, a reinforcing assembly, an elevation angle adjusting assembly and the like, the supporting assembly body is used for supporting a solar panel through a single column, and the mounting frame assembly is used for fixing the solar panel to the top end of the supporting assembly body. The driving assembly is used for driving the solar panel to perform horizontal rotation for tracking the sun under the cooperation of the photosensitive sensor, the reinforcing assembly is used for increasing the strength of the lower end of the fixing column, and the elevation angle adjusting assembly is used for continuously adjusting the elevation angle of the horizontally rotating solar panel during tracking the sun through the relative movement of the second pipe sleeve and the fixing column. The elevation angle adjusting assembly used for connecting the supporting assembly and the mounting rack assembly and adjusting the elevation angle of the solar panel on the mounting rack assembly is simple in structure, and has the advantages of being simple in structure and low in cost when compared with an existing trackable support.

The invention discloses a pipe distribution device of a solar natural circulation direct system, and relates to the technical field of solar energy. The device comprises a mounting base, a mounting frame and a partition plate, the mounting frame is welded to the upper surface of the mounting base, the partition plate is welded in the mounting frame, a pipe distribution cavity is formed in one side of the partition plate, and a wiring cavity is formed in the other side of the partition plate; a second fixing plate is arranged on one side of the first fixing plate, a plurality of fixing sleeves are welded to one surface in the second fixing plate, and sliding rods are embedded in the fixing sleeves. By means of the partition plate structure, the pipelines and the cables are arranged in a separated mode, the pipelines are installed reasonably, orderly and neatly, follow-up maintenance is facilitated, meanwhile, by means of the first fixing plate, the second fixing plate and the wiring plate structure, the pipelines and the cables are fixed and protected conveniently, the safety of the pipelines and the cables during use is guaranteed, and the practicability is high. And meanwhile, later regular maintenance is more convenient.

The invention discloses a concentrating solar heat collection, heat storage and heat exchange integrated system, and relates to the technical field of concentrating solar energy, the concentrating solar heat collection, heat storage and heat exchange integrated system comprises a heat collection system, a heat storage system and a heat exchange system, the arrangement height of the heat collection system is higher than that of the heat storage system, and the heat collection system is obliquely arranged; the upper end and the lower end of the heat collection pipeline are connected with the hot salt mother pipe and the cold salt mother pipe respectively, the lower end of the hot salt mother pipe is connected with the hot salt storage component and the cold salt storage component through the hot salt and salt dredging controllable mechanism, and the two ends of the cold salt and salt dredging controllable mechanism are connected with the cold salt mother pipe and the cold salt storage component respectively. The heat exchange system comprises a heat exchange component and a heat exchange and salt dredging controllable mechanism, the heat exchange component is higher than the heat storage system, and the lower portion of the heat exchange component is connected with the cold salt storage component through the heat exchange and salt dredging controllable mechanism. According to the system, the salt dredging process flow is simplified, related equipment is few, the failure rate is low, and the operation and maintenance cost is reduced.

The invention relates to the technical field of solar energy. The multifunctional solar radar velocimeter comprises a solar panel and an adjusting device connected with the bottom of the solar panel, the adjusting device integrates a driving mechanism, a sliding mechanism and a reinforcing mechanism, and the placing angle and the unfolding state of the solar panel can be adjusted so that the light energy absorption efficiency can be improved. The driving device drives the solar panel to rotate through gear transmission so as to adapt to sunlight in different directions; the sliding device drives the solar panel to be stably unfolded or folded by means of transmission of a bevel gear, a rack and the like, the light receiving area is increased, and various installation spaces are adapted. The reinforcing device is locked and fixed to the clamping structure through the tightening assembly, and external force is resisted to prevent loosening and deviation. The three parts work cooperatively, the problems that existing equipment is inconvenient to adjust, unstable in fixation, low in integration and the like are solved, the equipment operation stability and environment adaptability are improved, and the device is suitable for outdoor road scenes and has the characteristics of energy conservation, environmental protection and easy maintenance.

This invention discloses a biaxial trough solar collector and its usage method, relating to the field of solar energy technology. The invention includes a solar collector, a biaxial support, an energy distribution mechanism, a heat collection mechanism, and a steam guiding mechanism. The invention incorporates a distribution component within the heat collection mechanism. Equally spaced partition meshes divide the inner cavity of the inner heat collection tube into multiple independent areas, segmentally blocking the free flow of the evaporating liquid. Combined with a water outlet trough on the bottom water pipe for continuous leakage, the evaporating liquid is absorbed by the honeycomb sleeve and held in a specific position, exhibiting a "quasi-solid" distribution. This design effectively overcomes the problem of uneven distribution caused by gravity-induced liquid accumulation at lower elevations when the collector tilts due to angle adjustments of the biaxial support, ensuring uniform heat exchange efficiency of the heat collection tube at different angles.

Methods are disclosed for selectively doping grain boundaries in polycrystalline chalcogenide thin films for photovoltaic applications. In some embodiments, a chalcogenide-based or cadmium-based polycrystalline substrate is treated with a chloride-containing solution and contacted with an electrolyte comprising at least one dopant. An electric field is applied such that the dopant is selectively driven into grain-boundary regions while limiting dopant incorporation within grain interiors. In some embodiments, excess dopant material is removed from a surface of the substrate, followed by a thermal treatment to diffuse dopant material into grain interiors. The methods may be applied to CdTe or CdSeTe thin films and to group V dopants.

The utility model relates to the technical field of perovskite solar energy, and discloses a perovskite solar cell aging detection device which comprises a protection box, a detection device body is slidably connected in the protection box, a top plate is fixedly connected to the top of the detection device body, and handles are fixedly connected to two sides of the top of the top plate. Straight grooves are formed in the two sides of the detection device body, and inserting grooves are formed in the front ends of the interiors of the straight grooves. According to the perovskite solar cell aging detection device, a worker pushes an adjusting block into an adjusting groove, so that the adjusting block drives an insertion block to move and drives the insertion block to move into a straight groove, the insertion block is released from the insertion groove, and meanwhile, the limitation of the detection device body is also released; and when a worker needs to detect the battery, the top plate is lifted, so that the detection device body is exposed outside, and the detection device body is prevented from being damaged outside when not in use.

The application provides a control method of a solar thermochemical energy storage device, and belongs to the technical field of solar energy. The method determines a target residence time of particles, obtains a plurality of parameter groups containing a scraper angle, a feeding speed, a scraper spacing and a rotating disc rotating speed, calculates the residence time of the particles corresponding to each parameter group through a target numerical model established based on the parameters of the particles and the device, obtains an average value and a variance of the residence time of the particles in the device corresponding to each parameter group based on the residence time of a plurality of particles in the device corresponding to each parameter group, determines a plurality of first target parameter groups from the plurality of parameter groups, determines a second target parameter group from the plurality of first target parameter groups, and the second target parameter group is the first target parameter group with the minimum variance of the corresponding residence time in the plurality of first target parameter groups. The device is controlled based on the second target parameter, and the beneficial effect of accurately controlling the residence time of the particles is achieved.

The invention relates to the technical field of photovoltaic solar energy, in particular to a steel structure house integrated with a building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) system, which comprises a BIPV roof, the roof comprises a plurality of corrugated supporting plates, the corrugated direction of the corrugated supporting plates extends along a first direction, the corrugated supporting plates are laid on roof purlines at intervals in the first direction, and two trapezoidal bulges are formed on the cross section of each corrugated supporting plate; the trapezoidal groove between the two trapezoidal bulges forms a first drainage groove; the photovoltaic panels are laid on the trapezoidal protrusions of every two adjacent corrugated supporting plates. And the first water guide plates are arranged between two adjacent groups of photovoltaic panels to cover the first drainage grooves and the joints of the photovoltaic panels and the corrugated supporting plates, and obliquely extend downwards in the direction close to the photovoltaic panels. The photovoltaic panel is supported and installed through the corrugated supporting plate structure with the supporting and drainage functions, the sealing and vibration resistance of the roof are improved, most water on the roof can be drained from the roof through the surface of the photovoltaic panel, and the better drainage and leakage prevention effect is achieved.

The invention relates to the field of solar technology and concerns a support structure such as those used, for example, in agricultural installations. The object of the present invention is to provide a support structure that allows for a fundamentally fixed arrangement of the solar modules while simultaneously enabling the use of the areas beneath the solar modules. This is achieved by a support structure for constructing a ground-mounted photovoltaic system, in which the height and width of the support structure are designed to allow passage and / or parking of vehicles and / or agricultural machinery or equipment, or for people to pass underneath, and in which the support structure consists of at least: several pylons, several crossbeams, a plurality of bifacial solar modules, and a plurality of mountings for the bifacial solar modules on the crossbeams and / or pylons.

The application discloses a beer production heat supply system using solar energy, and relates to the technical field of solar energy and the field of energy saving in beer production. The beer production heat supply system comprises a solar heat collecting module and a multi-grade heat supply module. A hot water outlet of the solar heat collecting module is connected to the multi-grade heat supply module to transmit heat energy to the multi-grade heat supply module. The multi-grade heat supply module comprises a plurality of heat supply units corresponding to different temperature intervals. The hot medium outlet of each heat supply unit is connected to a beer production process processing module with a temperature suitable for the temperature interval of the heat supply unit. The application can meet the multi-grade heat demand of each process processing module in beer production, greatly reduce or even completely eliminate the use amount of coal-fired and gas-fired boilers, eliminate the dependence of each process heat in beer production on fossil energy, and further reduce energy consumption and carbon emission.

The invention belongs to the technical field of solar energy, and particularly relates to a semitransparent organic solar cell and a preparation method thereof. The semitransparent organic solar cell provided by the invention sequentially comprises a transparent substrate, a bottom transparent electrode, a hole transport layer, an active layer, an electron transport layer, a top transparent electrode and a surface anti-reflection layer which are stacked from bottom to top, materials of the active layer comprise a donor material, an acceptor material, an additive and a doping component. The translucent organic solar cell provided by the invention has efficient translucency, high photoelectric conversion efficiency and high visible light transmittance, and fundamentally solves the inherent contradiction between the photoelectric conversion efficiency and the average visible light transmittance of the organic solar cell; and the application requirements of lighting and power generation in scenes of building integrated photovoltaic, automobile sunroofs, intelligent greenhouses and the like can be perfectly met.

The invention relates to an efficient and energy-saving seawater desalination technology, and aims to solve the core technical problem that traditional seawater desalination is limited by the bottleneck of huge energy demand and is difficult to popularize and develop. The efficient and energy-saving characteristics of the solar energy technology and the water source heat pump technology are utilized, the device serves as processing equipment for seawater desalination, fresh water is manufactured through a freezing method and an evaporation method, and breakthrough innovation is achieved. Compared with a traditional method, the energy consumption can be greatly reduced, and rapid development of seawater desalination can be promoted. The fresh water produced by the technology also has the characteristics of cold supply and heat supply.

The utility model discloses a solar photovoltaic support assembly in the technical field of solar energy, comprising a fixing frame and a first socket, one side of the fixing frame is provided with the first socket, the first socket is fixedly connected with the fixing frame, the first socket is internally provided with a first insertion block, one side of the first insertion block is embedded with a storage groove, the storage groove is internally provided with a first spring, and the first spring is fixedly connected with the first insertion block. The first spring is fixedly connected with the storage groove, a buckle is arranged in the storage groove and is in sliding connection with the storage groove, a clamping groove is formed in one side of the first socket, the buckle and the clamping groove are fixed in a clamping mode, a photovoltaic panel is arranged on one side of the first insertion block, and the photovoltaic panel is fixedly connected with the first insertion block. Through the arrangement of the fixing frame, the first socket, the first insertion block, the storage groove, the first spring, the buckle and the clamping groove, convenience is provided for installation of the photovoltaic panel, fixation can be completed only by inserting the first insertion block into the first socket and clamping the buckle into the clamping groove, and convenience is provided for maintenance of the device.

The invention relates to the technical field of solar energy, and particularly discloses a battery string typesetting piece production device and a battery string typesetting piece production process. In the battery string typesetting piece production device, a battery string preparation device is used for arranging a plurality of battery pieces on a preparation platform; a positive electrode welding strip and a negative electrode welding strip prepared by the welding strip preparation mechanism are placed on the battery pieces needing to be connected in series in the same group, a positive electrode film strip and a negative electrode film strip prepared by the positive and negative electrode film strip preparation mechanism are placed on the positive electrode welding strip and the negative electrode welding strip, and a positive electrode pasting notch is reserved in the positive electrode film strip; the end bus bar assembling mechanism places end bus bars on the two groups of battery pieces; the typesetting device is used for placing a middle bus bar on a battery piece; wherein the positive and negative electrode film strip preparation mechanism comprises a cutting platform and a cutting assembly, and the cutting assembly is used for cutting film strips on the cutting platform to respectively form positive electrode film strips and negative electrode film strips. The above arrangement solves the problem of subfissure of the battery piece.

The utility model discloses a non-hollowed-out flaked graphite boat, which relates to the technical field of photovoltaic solar energy and comprises a graphite boat outer sheet. The graphite boat further comprises graphite boat inner pieces, graphite clamping points, first fixing parts and second fixing parts, wherein the first fixing parts are used for fixing the first boat lugs and the third boat lugs and fixing the fourth boat lugs on the graphite boat inner pieces, and the second fixing parts are used for fixing the graphite boat outer pieces and the graphite boat inner pieces. According to the device, the graphite boat is designed into a mode of combining the graphite boat outer piece and the graphite boat inner piece, so that the process risk of customers is reduced, the generation mechanism of graphite boat marks and scratches is eliminated from the source, an inner frame and chamfers of an original mechanism are removed, two processing procedures in an original production process are optimized, the processing cost is greatly reduced, and the production efficiency is improved. Compared with the prior art, the processing time is saved, while the structure is optimized, the production capacity is improved, the thickness of the boat piece is changed from 2.5 mm to 4mm of the outer piece and 1.7 mm of the inner piece, and the loading capacity of the silicon piece is improved by 10%.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of solar energy, and relates to a vacuum tube inner wall cleaning and drying all-in-one machine which comprises a cleaning tank, a cleaning roller, a driving motor and a fan, a heat preservation box is arranged outside the cleaning tank, an electric heating wire is installed on the inner wall of the cleaning tank, one end of the cleaning tank is provided with a tube containing opening and a sealing cover, and the other end of the cleaning tank is connected with the cleaning roller through a hollow rotating shaft. The cleaning tank is arranged outside the cleaning tank, the cleaning sponge is covered outside the cleaning tank, the sponge is provided with a ventilation groove and an air outlet hole, the driving motor is connected with the rotating shaft through a belt, the fan is installed above the motor, the air outlet extends into the rotating shaft, and the heat preservation box of the rotating shaft is internally covered with the heat preservation material. And meanwhile, high-speed airflow is blown into the inner wall of the vacuum tube through the roller shaft by utilizing the fan, so that the moisture on the inner wall of the vacuum tube is blown out, and the moisture is prevented from remaining on the inner wall of the vacuum tube.

The invention relates to the technical field of solar energy, and particularly discloses a string arrangement method and a string arrangement device.The string arrangement method comprises the following steps that two feeding mechanisms are adopted for supplying battery pieces correspondingly; performing scribing treatment on the battery pieces by adopting two scribing mechanisms to form A-type battery pieces and B-type battery pieces; the first pickup piece picks up the A-type battery pieces and the B-type battery pieces, and places the A-type battery pieces and the B-type battery pieces on a first pre-arrangement platform to form an A-type battery string or a B-type battery string; the second pickup piece picks up the A-type battery string or the B-type battery string on the first pre-arrangement platform and places the A-type battery string or the B-type battery string in the second pre-arrangement platform; the other second pick-up piece picks up the B-type battery string or the A-type battery string on the first pre-arrangement platform and places the B-type battery string or the A-type battery string on the second pre-arrangement platform to form a long A-type battery string or a long B-type battery string; and the third picking piece moves the A-type battery long string or the B-type battery long string to the string forming platform and carries out subsequent operation to form a finished battery string. The production efficiency of the finished battery string is improved.

There is described a solar technology component (120), comprising or consisting of an aluminium-based alloy that originates from an automotive component (110). Further, there is described a method (100) of manufacturing a solar technology component, the method comprising: providing an automotive component (110), in particular a motor block, that comprises an aluminium-based alloy, melting (130) the automotive component (110) to obtain a melt product, and forming (140, 150) the solar technology component (120) from the melt product.

The application discloses an embedded vehicle-mounted solar charging device suitable for different vehicle sunroofs and relates to the technical field of vehicle-mounted solar energy, which comprises an adjustable frame assembly, a photovoltaic assembly and the like. The adjustable frame assembly comprises four groups of mounting seats, mounting frames fixed to the adjacent side walls of the mounting seats, adjusting grooves opened at the ends of the mounting frames, adjusting rods sliding between the two groups of sliding grooves, strip-shaped grooves opened on the surface of the adjusting rods, positioning holes opened on the surface of the mounting frames and bolt assemblies mounted between the strip-shaped grooves and the positioning holes. The device can be flexibly adapted to the sizes of sunroofs of different vehicles through the adjustable frame assembly and the photovoltaic assembly, and can be installed without custom design, thereby reducing the production and use costs. The illumination monitoring assembly and the angle adjusting assembly work cooperatively, can automatically judge the power generation state according to the illumination intensity, avoid invalid energy consumption, improve the solar energy collection efficiency and guarantee the power generation stability.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of solar energy, and provides a solar panel array supporting device which comprises an inclined supporting frame, a vertical support, inclined supporting arms and an I-shaped plate, the inclined supporting frame comprises inclined supporting arms and bottom supporting arms, column piles are arranged below the high ends of the inclined supporting arms, the bottom supporting arms are transversely arranged above the low ends of the inclined supporting arms, the inclined supporting arms are arranged side by side at intervals, and the I-shaped plate is arranged on the vertical support. The inclined supporting arms are connected into a whole through the bottom supporting arm; the vertical support is arranged between the high end of the inclined supporting arm and the top of the column pile, the inclined supporting arm is arranged between the low end of the inclined supporting arm and the bottom of the column pile, and the length direction of the inclined supporting arm is perpendicular to the length direction of the inclined supporting arm so that the high end of the inclined supporting arm can abut against the lower portion of the low end of the inclined supporting arm. The solar panel assembling device is simple in structure, convenient to assemble and arrange, capable of rapidly assembling solar panels in a side-by-side array state, extremely low in manpower consumption, capable of effectively reducing the labor intensity of workers and high in practical value.

A solar powered mechanical keyboard includes a keyboard body having a plurality of keys selectable by pressing keys over a solar cell layer located below the keyboard body for absorbing ambient light. The plurality of keys are configured to travel downward to contact conductive traces of the conductive layer. The layer above the solar cell may be a transparent or translucent material, effectively hiding solar technology, while allowing efficient energy conversion and maintaining haptic feedback or "click touch".