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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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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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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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LED efficiency boosted by quantum dot and formic acid combo
May 9, 2012 -- White-light quantum dots (QDs) are cadmium selenide materials that convert the blue light of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to a high-quality warm white light, in a …
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Thin-film solar PV suppliers unite under "PVThin" banner
… security and climate-change mitigation, that PVThin was founded." PVThin's initial membership is slanted heavily on the cadmium telluride (CdTe) side of thin-film solar PV: First Solar , Abound Solar , GE , Arendi, and Calyxo. 5N Plus supplies …
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New approach aims to slash cost of solar cells
… wafer crystalline silicon, though thin-film cells made of more exotic materials like gallium, arsenic, indium, arsenide, cadmium , and tellurium are making a strong push into the market. The advantage of silicon is its abundance, as it is derived from …
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First Solar's 4Q11 takeaways: Warranty woes, and a radical idea
… crystalline silicon (c-Si) panels. Field reliability of thin-film panels is less proven, and high temperature degradation of cadmium -telluride (CdTe) panels is known and understood (he cites an NREL study). It's the most important metric for a company …
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Metal-wrapped nanowires slash semiconductor emission lifetimes
… period semiconductors typically require. The nanowires are cadmium sulfide wrapped in a buffer layer of silicon dioxide and an ..... intensity electromagnetic fields inside the light-emitting cadmium sulfide core. Further tuning balanced the inverse relationship …
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Top 10 public solar companies
… listed companies (based on market capitalization) is First Solar Inc. (FSLR). The solar cell company's record-breaking cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film technology and massive module production capacity, which is expected to reach 2.3GW in 2011 …
