Introduction: What is the beauty of solar cell phones? When can we use a mobile phone that does not require charging?

Recently, there are news that Apple and Samsung are evaluating the possibility of introducing solar cells into their products in the future. This means that in the future, there will be a mobile phone that can restore its own power. Once the mobile phone loaded with solar cells is successfully sold, it is bound to cause another wave. What is the beauty of the solar cell phone? When can we use a mobile phone that does not require charging?

Apple and Samsung both bet

It is understood that Apple and Samsung are currently evaluating future products or will introduce solar cells, especially organic solar technology. And the two companies have locked in several Taiwanese solar cell companies to provide such technology.

At present, mobile phones have become the most important electronic products in people's lives, but the endurance has always been an important factor limiting the long-term development of mobile phones. If the phone is loaded with solar cells, it means that as long as there is sunlight, the battery life can be extended indefinitely. With the continuous advancement of solar technology, future solar mobile phones no longer need chargers and data lines.

Such black technology gives people unlimited imagination and is getting closer and closer to us.

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It is understood that the organic solar cell technology that Apple and Samsung are looking at is one of the hot research directions of current solar cells. Organic solar cells are an important third-generation solar cell technology. Compared with the current popular silicon-based materials, organic materials have a wide range of sources, low prices, simple process, good flexibility, easy mass production, light, soft and easy to carry. Degradable, environmental pollution and many other advantages.

As an emerging technology, organic solar cell technology is developing rapidly and has a bright future. Last year, the organic solar cell materials and devices with high efficiency and wide spectral absorption characteristics designed and prepared by Professor Chen Yongsheng of Nankai University in China made the conversion efficiency of organic solar cells reach 17.3%.

In addition, the way in which organic materials are combined with inorganic perovskite materials has also received considerable attention. It is understood that the photoelectric conversion efficiency of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells has increased to 22.1%, which is close to the photoelectric conversion efficiency of single crystal silicon solar cells (26.3%).

The photoelectric conversion efficiency of organic solar cells is rapidly increasing, and it is expected to surpass crystalline silicon cells in the future in terms of power generation efficiency. On the other hand, organic solar cells can be very thin and light, and have the advantages of flexibility and flexibility, and poor light performance.

Perhaps because of the thin and efficient nature of organic solar cells, Apple and Samsung have both favored both. However, organic solar cells have not been developed on a large scale. From the perspective of the development of organic solar cells, it seems that solar mobile phones still have a long way to go from large-scale production.

In fact, this is not the case. Solar mobile phones have actually been available for a long time, but they have not yet formed a trend.