Sentences with phrase «cadmium telluride thin»

For instance, cadmium telluride thin film panels could help solar reach grid parity sooner than silicon panels could, but tellurium — a key ingredient — is fairly rare.

A researcher analyzes a cadmium telluride thin - film solar cell at General Electric's Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York.

«America is quickly falling behind in clean energy, trading Middle Eastern oil for cheap Chinese solar, batteries and wind turbines,» says Chris Rivest, co-founder of Berkeley, Calif. — based SunPrint, which is developing technology to print cadmium telluride thin - film photovoltaic cells.

First Solar, based in Tempe, Arizona, offers to take back and recycle all the cadmium telluride thin - film solar cells it produces.

Not exact matches

It uses cadmium telluride for its thin - film PV panels, so the tariffs, which specifically concern the more popular crystalline silicone solar products, won't affect it.

The 1.2 x 2 meter modules are expected to become commercially available at 420 - 445 watts with efficiencies of over 17 %, which is a testament to the thin film solar maker's remarkable progress with cadmium telluride PV.

While most of its peers make silicon - based panels, First Solar manufactures thin - film panels made with cadmium - telluride, which absorbs more frequencies of light and uses fewer materials.

With this data, they analyzed two solar cell materials: silicon (commonly used in solar cells) and cadmium telluride (thin - film competitor material).

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

Enter thin - film solar cells — devices that use a fine layer of semiconducting material, such as silicon, copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride, to harvest electricity from sunlight at a fraction of the cost.

For example, Tempe, Ariz. — based First Solar, Inc., which employs cadmium telluride in its thin - film solar cells, sells its modules encased in glass for either large arrays or rooftops.

The least expensive solar cells today are made using thin films of cadmium telluride.

Already, such issues have driven major companies such as General Electric to opt for competing technologies, investing in thin - film solar cells made from cadmium telluride by PrimeStar.

First Solar's solar cells — the U.S. best seller — produce electricity when sunlight strikes a thin film of cadmium telluride sandwiched between glass.

Indiana energy holding company Vectren Energy Delivery (Vectren), has selected First Solar, Inc. to construct the 50 - megawatt (MW) cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin - film solar array sketched out last month as part of Vectren's long - term plan for electric generation.

First Solar, Inc. of Tempe, Arizona USA, a maker of cadmium telluride CdTe - based thin - film solar cells, reported that the company will begin developing and building a 200 - megawatt (MW) ac photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in Twiggs County, Georgia USA.

It's cheaper to make «thin - film solar cells» with cadmium telluride than with silicon.

Thin - film silicon technologies from turn - key vendors will be ramping up in large scale during the second half of 2008, while cadmium telluride (CdTe) module producers such as First Solar

The thin - film solar leader is betting its future on a smooth transition to the larger Series 6 cadmium - telluride solar module.

The thin - film solar leader is betting its future on the bigger Series 6 cadmium - telluride solar module.

Solar Frontier's monolithic thin - film modules are spec'd at approximately 12.2 percent efficiency, which is a relatively strong number in the thin film world, a bit better than First Solar's 11.7 - percent - efficient cadmium telluride material, but still trailing the 14 percent to 22 percent module efficiency of the crystalline silicon vendors.

According to the university, the cheapest solar cells today are based on a thin film of insoluble cadmium telluride.

The researchers investigated 4 types of solar cells: multi-crystalline silicon (with an efficiency of 13 %), mono - crystalline silicon (14 %), ribbon silicon (11.5 %), and thin - film cadmium telluride (9 %).

The solar cells are made of uniform 500 - nanometer - high pillars of cadmium sulfide embedded in a thin film of cadmium telluride.

Harvey, who has an impressive command of technical data, worries that toxic cadmium telluride used in the thin - film panels will escape into the environment, and he isn't soothed by Chevron's assurances that it will spray polymer - based binders on the disturbed soil to keep it from blowing around.