How to Use cadmium telluride in a Sentence

cadmium telluride

noun
  • It is combined with cadmium to make cadmium telluride, which is then used to make panels that are more efficient than selenium solar panels.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2022-05-12
  • The new funds include some money toward developing two alternatives: perovskite and cadmium telluride solar cells.
    — Isabella O’Malley and Jennifer McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-04-20
  • Today, some nine million cadmium telluride solar modules occupy the land as part of the Topaz Solar Farm, one of the largest installations in the world.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2023-06-08
  • On a recent afternoon at the Ohio factory, an endless line of glass panels traveled through machines that deposited layers of cadmium telluride and other materials.
    — Washington Post, 2021-09-08
  • For nearly two weeks the worms ingested the toxic salts and, just as the researchers had hoped, the isolated salts combined in the worms' guts to form quantum dots of cadmium telluride (CdTe) coated in organic chemicals.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 2012-12-26
  • Toledo Solar by contrast, like neighboring cadmium telluride giant First Solar, uses a thin film semiconductor that’s just a fraction of the thickness of a human hair.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 2023-01-09
  • The core of a quantum dot is typically composed of a heavy metal, such as cadmium selenium or cadmium telluride, although more recently quantum dots made from other materials are also possible.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2021-09-23
  • Manufactured by First Solar, cadmium telluride panels have been deployed around the world and have exceeded safety standards despite the presence of an element far more toxic than lead: cadmium.
    — Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 2015-07-01
  • This has resulted in large price increases in recent years as demand has soared for both thermoelectric and CdTe solar [cadmium telluride photovoltaic solar cells—the second most common ones on the market].
    — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 2017-04-10
  • Jones-Albertus said that in cadmium telluride solar technology, the compound is stable and encapsulated in glass and additional protective layers.
    — Isabella O'Malley and Jennifer McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-04-20
  • There has long been hope for higher efficiency, and today’s announcement puts some money towards developing two alternatives: perovskite and cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells.
    — Isabella O'Malley and Jennifer McDermott, Chicago Tribune, 2023-04-20

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