Antimony selenosulfide (Sb2(S,Se)3) solar cells are emerging as a strong candidate for next-generation thin-film ...

SINGAPORE] It is no secret that solar energy, once an alternative source of power, is now a mainstream reality. With the ...

CdTe solar cell structure is showed in Figure 2a.These solar cells were developed as is detailed in Figure 2b to analyze each step of the process (window material, absorbent material, back contacts).

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and First Solar have used cracked film lithography (CFL) to build a bifacial cadmium telluride solar cell with a power density of 20.3 mW cm−2.

The thin-film technology can be made more cheaply than silicon solar panels and has been shown to have a 22.1% efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. To improve the cost-competitiveness ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium, which it described as a $20 million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less ...

There are limited choices for front-surface, electron-selective contacts (emitters) for CdTe solar cells, thus hindering scientific and technical development. Here we investigate the photovoltaic ...

First Solar holds the record 22.1% efficiency for a laboratory CdTe cell. Image: First Solar. New insight into how chlorine enhances the performance of cadmium telluride (CdTe) cells could result ...

In the paper “Design of a highly efficient CdTe-based dual-heterojunction solar cell with 44% predicted efficiency”, published in Solar Energy, the scientists explained that CdSe is an n-type ...

Silicon and GaAs solar cells have recently been demonstrated with efficiencies that are 87% of their respective detailed-balance limits 1.Like Si and GaAs, CdTe has a near optimum bandgap and a ...