Featured in Keen Korea – 01-2011

Early thin film progress

The story of solar electricity: The seventeenth part of our series with chapters from John Perlin’s book From Space to Earth focuses on the development of thin films, and, in particular, on amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride.
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While most laboratories interested in finding a low-cost photovoltaic device concentrated on cadmium sulfide during the 1960s and 1970s, a few maverick scientists considered other materials. Elliot Berman had initially interested Exxon in the possibility of making a low-cost solar cell from dyes which convert sunlight into electricity, an idea that has recently resurfaced in …

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