NREL Produces Highly Efficient, Wide-Bandgap, Thin-Film Solar Cells (Fact Sheet)

Ernest Tucker

NREL Produces Highly Efficient, Wide-Bandgap, Thin-Film Solar Cells (Fact Sheet)

Ernest Tucker

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Abstract

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are finding new ways to manufacture thin-film solar cells made from copper, indium, gallium, and selenium - called CIGS cells - that are different than conventional CIGS solar cells. Their use of high-temperature glass, designed by SCHOTT AG, allows higher fabrication temperatures, opening the door to new CIGS solar cells employinglight-absorbing materials with wide 'bandgaps.'

Original language	American English
Number of pages	2
State	Published - 2012

NREL Publication Number

NREL/FS-6A42-51559

Keywords

CIGS
high gallium
high-temperature fabrication
high-temperature glass
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
NREL
PDIL
process development and integration laboratory
Schott
spectrum of clean energy innovations
thin films
wide band gap

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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