How Does Industry Use Cadmium Telluride?
Industry uses cadmium telluride as the preferred means of making photovoltaic modules that are used in solar energy cells. The substance’s band gap makes it one of the best on the planet for converting solar energy and it can be made at low cost. The compound is normally put in between cadmium sulfide sheets to make solar cells. It is predicted that solar energy cells made from the substance will be able to reach at least 19% efficiency in the next decade, which will significantly decrease the cost of adopting solar power as a primary energy source.
