Sentences with phrase «uses cadmium telluride»

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

In fact, cadmium telluride solar cells are currently the most ecofriendly devices, even though they use a toxic heavy metal, primarily because they require the least energy — typically provided by burning fossil fuels — to manufacture, says environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and Columbia University.

He is researching ways to meet this goal through the use of materials including amorphous silicon (a-Si), copper indium diselenide (CIS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) to exploit silicon's efficiency and keep down costs.

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

At SkyPower, we will not use panels manufactured with toxic or rare materials, including 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.