其对材料领域的意义
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.
其组成成分
所有材料 →| 材料 | 其在此处的用途 | 重要性 |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminium 关键 | Frames and mounting | 定义 |
| Copper 关键 | Ribbon, wiring and inverters | 定义 |
| Silicon 关键 | The cell itself | 定义 |
| Silver 关键 | Front-contact conductive paste | 定义 |
| Soda Ash | Cover glass | 重要 |
| Tellurium 关键 | Cadmium-telluride thin-film cells | 重要 |
| Tin 关键 | Solder-coated interconnect ribbon | 重要 |
| Zinc 关键 | Galvanised mounting structures | 重要 |
| Gallium 关键 | CIGS thin film and cell doping | 至今 |
| Indium 关键 | CIGS thin film and transparent contacts | 至今 |
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…
