Featured in Chinese Connection – 04-2010

Cadmium telluride for everyone

Thin film photovoltaics: As the first photovoltaic equipment supplier worldwide, Roth & Rau has developed a turnkey plant for cadmium telluride modules. In cooperation with a Chinese partner, the enterprise is going to build a reference factory in east Germany. Later, Roth & Rau will sell its plant to solar companies and investors outside of the branch. As such the thin film market will be changeable for a long time to come.

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pv magazine

17 Sep 2010

In the more than 40 years he has been working on the development of cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules, Dieter Bonnet never had doubts that CdTe, from the physical point of view, is the best semiconductor material for thin film photovoltaics. For a long time he was tormented by quite another worry: “Is there enough cadmium …

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