Sentences with phrase «from cadmium telluride»
Researchers improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell, overcoming a practical limit that has been pursued for six decades and is key to improving efficiency.
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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.
Making solar cells from cadmium telluride «is a much more robust and forgiving process and material structure.»
Not exact matches
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 their outstanding contribution in the field of crystals of cadmium - mercury - telluride (CMT) leading to the application of detectors made from CMT to the successful development of thermal imaging.
What may really help to lower the cost of solar are new materials — especially semiconductors made from the compound cadmium telluride.
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
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.