So far, First Solar has ruled the roost in thin film solar with cadmium telluride thin film.
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In some cells (like the thin film CdTe ones) the target metals are indeed in a thin film which could conceivably be washed off with the right reagent.
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Wal-Mart is pursuing thin film for the promise that eventually, when production is scaled up, thin film panels will be cheaper to make than traditional ones, explains Rive.
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The panels are various new thin-film technologies that Chevron thinks could cost less than current thin film technologies or traditional crystalline silicon solar cells.
Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
Dow itself invested in thin-film solar startup NuvoSun for its solar shingles and shut down its internal work on thin-film solar.
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Obviously an eyelid-like shutter mechanism would be too large and complicated for something as small as a print head, so an electrical field is applied instead to keep the film spread thin.
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Suntech Power is currently pursuing thin film technology, a low cost PV technology that involves depositing several thin layers of silicon or more complex materials on a substrate such as glass to make a PV cell.
Several U.S. thin film companies, which use semiconductors that allow them to create ultra-thin solar panels, are in production expansion mode.
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Joanna Aizenberg and her colleagues produced an elastic thin film material with nano-sized pores.
Thin film technology refers to the use of non-silicon materials to convert sunlight into electricity.
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But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display.
First Solar has been a leader in thin film photovoltaic modules using cadmium telluride.
First Solar makes the most efficient thin film panels, SunPower makes the most efficient crystalline silicon panels.
The three main types of thin film technologies use cadmium-telluride, copper-indium-gallium-selenide and amorphous-silicon to convert sunlight into electricity.
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As a result, silicon solar panels are not much more expensive than thin film solar panels these days.
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Trillions of these quantum dots are packaged into a thin film that fits inside an LCD backlight unit.
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That move followed the bankruptcy of another thin film producer in Colorado, Abound Solar, by just a week.
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This is done by encasing them in a thin film of biodegradable material, such as a special plastic.
Four years ago the buzz around thin film was that it would be much cheaper than traditional solar panels.
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Making a deviced structure through the thin film process for semiconductors, the performance as a photo-electrode has highly improved.
Using a thin film of polyfluorene, a light-emitting plastic, they have created a laser which reacts with explosive vapour.
Instead of traditional crystalline silicon solar panels, it will be using thin film solar, which uses elements other than silicon.
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Most photomasks are created by etching away a thin film of light-blocking chrome from the surface of a quartz plate.
They coated the array with a thin film of gold and placed it above a flat, gold-coated sheet of glass.
Any small bright dots that may appear on your display are an intrinsic characteristic of the thin film transistors manufacturing technology.
SoloPower, like many of its fellow CIGS thin film companies, missed production goals it had set a few years back.
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Once the beads have been mixed into the liquid rubber, it is rolled out into a thin film and cut into sheets.
First Solar is by far the world leader in thin film panel production and it is the most valuable solar company in the world.
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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