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What's Behind Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiencies
… efficiencies of Crystalline, CIGs, Amorphous, Cadmium Telluride and Multijunction Concentrator ..... at a price of 95 cents per Watt. Cadmium -telluride First Solar, the company that popularized cadmium -telluride, is the world's largest …
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Nanoco-completes-quantum-dot-order
… Nanoco Group plc (AIM: NANO), cadmium -free quantum dots manufacturer, produced a 1kg batch of red cadmium -free quantum dots (CFQD) for a major ..... by the corporation. The production of cadmium -free quantum dots on this scale is …
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CVI Melles Griot
… Manufactures lasers, instruments, and photonics components. Offers a spectrum of argon ion, krypton argon, helium neon, helium cadmium , DPSS, and diode lasers covering the UV to IR range along with related instrumentation, for Raman spectroscopy, plasma …
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First Solar CdTe cell sets efficiency record
July 26, 2011 - BUSINESS WIRE -- First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSLR) set a cadmium -telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell efficiency record of 17.3% with a test cell fabbed with commercial-scale …
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DuPont's CdTe flexible substrate nears glass-based PV efficiency levels
June 2, 2011 -- DuPont is developing Kapton colorless polyimide film for use as a flexible superstrate for cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules . The film was used by Swiss research institute Empa to reach CdTe conversion …
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NN-Labs intros 'environmentally friendly' quantum dots
… friendly, heavy metal-free, high-performance alternative to cadmium selenide-based (CdSe) quantum dots for research and teaching ..... that offer high performance while eliminating the use of cadmium , a Level A toxic element with zero use tolerance for purpose …
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Sunovia, EPIR spark 45% jump in II-VI CdTe output
… September 24, 2009 - Researchers from Sunovia and EPIR Technologies say they have made single-junction and two-junction cadmium telluride (CdTe) -based solar cells with highest-ever open circuit voltages , beating previous marks by 45% -- roughly …
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First Solar certifies SolarMax inverters for use with its thin-film PV modules
… 2011 -- First Solar officially certified that the SolarMax inverters made by Sputnik Engineering are compatible with the cadmium -telluride (CdTe) modules of its FS 2 and FS 3 series. While crystalline modules can normally be combined with all inverters …
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Swiss researchers tout record-efficient CdTe cells for R2R
… 2009 - Researchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) near Zurich have produced cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar cells with a record 12.4% efficiency, made with a low-temperature process compatible …
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New Veeco surface profiler aids solar cell manufacturer
… instrumentation for nanoscience, has sold its new Dektak 150 Surface Profiler to PrimeStar Solar , an emerging manufacturer of cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) modules for the solar energy market. Dr. Fred Seymour, PrimeStar's PV Technology …
