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
Publisher	National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)
Number of pages	2
State	Published - 2012

NLR 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

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