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Inventor of cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels

The Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) solar technology was first introduced in 1972 when Bonnet and Rabenhorst designed the CdS/CdTe heterojunction that allowed the manufacturing of CdTe solar cells. At first, CdTe panels achieved a 6% efficiency, but the efficiency has tripled to this day. [1] Cadmium telluride PV is the only thin. . cadmium telluride solar cell, a photovoltaic device that produces electricity from light by using a thin film of cadmium telluride (CdTe). PV solar cells based on CdTe represent the largest segment of commercial thin-film module production worldwide.

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