Perché è rilevante per i materiali
Crystalline silicon dominates, so solar demand is really demand for purified silicon, silver paste, aluminium frames and glass. The thin-film alternative substitutes tellurium or indium for most of that.
Di cosa è composto
Tutti i materiali →| Materiale | Cosa fa qui | Importanza |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminium critico | Frames and mounting | Definizione di |
| Copper critico | Ribbon, wiring and inverters | Definizione di |
| Silicon critico | The cell itself | Definizione di |
| Silver critico | Front-contact conductive paste | Definizione di |
| Soda Ash | Cover glass | Importante |
| Tellurium critico | Cadmium-telluride thin-film cells | Importante |
| Tin critico | Solder-coated interconnect ribbon | Importante |
| Zinc critico | Galvanised mounting structures | Importante |
| Gallium critico | CIGS thin film and cell doping | Presente |
| Indium critico | CIGS thin film and transparent contacts | Presente |
Aluminium
A light silvery metal made by passing an enormous electric current through dissolved bauxite — which is why people…
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Silicon
The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one atom in a billion is…
Silver
The best electrical conductor there is, and the metal that has been used as money for longer than almost anything…
Soda Ash
Sodium carbonate, mined from trona rock or made from salt, and the second ingredient in almost every sheet of glass.
Tellurium
A brittle, silvery element recovered from the slime at the bottom of a copper refinery tank, and the basis of one of…
