Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film solar cells have emerged as a leading photovoltaic technology owing to their potential for low-cost and high-throughput manufacturing. Their unique material ...

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it has set a world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, achieving ...

US cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar manufacturer First Solar has agreed to pursue further thin-film technology development with Germany’s Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research ...

Scientists in the United States investigated adding a layer of copper-aluminum oxide to the rear side of a cadmium-telluride thin film cell, finding positive impacts on carrier lifetime and efficiency ...

A research team at Estonia's Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) has developed a solar cell based on bismuth trisulfide (Bi2S3) using close-spaced sublimation (CSS), which is a physical vapor ...

MNRE expands the ALMM by adding Tata Power Solar’s modules. Image: Tata Power India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has set up the minimum efficiency standards for cadmium telluride ...

An NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a novel technique to significantly enhance the performance of cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells. Unlike conventional silicon panels that use thick ...

This one really knocked our socks off. The last time we checked in on First Solar was almost exactly one year ago, when the company announced a world solar cell efficiency record of 18.7 per cent for ...

The soaring demand for renewable energy requires affordable and efficient technologies that can harness clean energy sources and renewable materials, thus minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and ...

AMOLF group leader Esther Alarcon Llado says: “based on the strong light trapping performance of our patterns, we estimate that PV efficiencies above 20% could be achieved for a 1 μm-thick c-Si cell, ...

Thin film material own the property of bandgap and requires ten times lesser quantity of substrate material to absorb light as compared to other solar cells. These are employed in wide range of ...