It has been concluded therefore that in the future less than 1% of solar pv will be in the form of CIGS thin-film cells.
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That said it is far too early for any declaration that e-cigs are completely benign for our health.
Given current consumption of the metal, this is sufficient for only 13 years and less than that if CIGS technology takes-off.
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The new assertiveness comes as tobacco analysts have started to acknowledge that growing demand for "e-cigs" in the US is peeling away customers from tobacco giants such as Altria, Lorillard and RJ Reynolds.
In fact I believe they are leading the pack in thin-film CIGS companies on flexible substrates.
It is nonetheless to be expected that there may be a supply-demand gap for indium, with a substantial escalation in its price, at least over the immediate term which is likely to impact on the inauguration of the thin-film CIGS cell industry.
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The San Jose company, founded in 2002, makes solar panels using copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar cells.
Today, Intermolecular announced an ongoing project with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia for the enhancement of copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) thin film solar manufacturing technology.
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As U.S. companies begin to ramp up CIGS thin film production, Q-Cells announced at the end of 2010 that its production capacity for Q.
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Other CIGS makers have run into trouble trying translate the high efficiency and low cost promised by small lab samples of CIGS into large sheets of high-quality, durable and uniform thin films.
Many venture capitalists began backing CIGS solar companies in the mid-2000s, when the price of silicon, which is found in most of the solar panels today, reached several hundred dollars per kilogram.
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In the lab, CIGS panels have promised to be far more efficient than Cad-Tel.
While less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional silicon-based photovoltaic panels, the great promise was that CIGS cells could be produced cheaper and deposited on glass, flexible metal or other materials.
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Nanosolar is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital to develop a thin-film technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. Such solar cells use little expensive silicon, the main ingredient of conventional photovoltaic cells.
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At nearly 14%, the efficiency of the thin-film panels which are made from copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS), is close to that of silicon, albeit being much cheaper to produce.
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Among the technologies are new ways of making already-commercialized formulations, like amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride, and newer formulations like CIGS, named for the elements it is made out of, copper, indium, gallium and selenium, and CIS, which leaves out the gallium.
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