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3 unusual facts about Cadmium Telluride


I. M. Dharmadasa

His recent scientific breakthroughs 1-2, which are fundamental to describing the photovoltaic activity of CdTe/CdS solar cells, were summarised in a "new theoretical model for CdTe”.

Based on these novel ideas he has reported a higher efficiency of 18% for the CdTe/CdS cell 3, compared with 16.5% reported by NREL in the United States.

Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive

Cadmium in Solar panels - Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film PV modules in photovoltaic panels are explicitly allowed by RoHS to contain unlimited cadmium, even though cadmium is restricted in all other electronics.


Nikolai N. Kolesnikov

He is the inventor of the High-Pressure Vertical Zone Melting method and Nanopowder Technology of CdTe and CdZnTe and also discovered one of the superconducting phases in Tl-Ba-Cu-O system.


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