Materials availability for thin film (TF) PV technologies development: A real concern?

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The Growing Role of Minerals and Metals for a Low Carbon Future (2017, background): “Candelise, Speirs, and Gross (2011) examine the evidence for future potential constraints on the production of thin film PV due to limited availability of tellurium and indium.”
Implications for CdTe and CIGS technologies production costs of indium and tellurium scarcity (2012, background): “Maximum installed capacity ranges from 120 to about 11 000GWp for both CdTe and CIGS [18].”
The feed-in tariff in the UK: A case study focus on domestic photovoltaic systems (2013, background): “Research conducted by Candelise et al [29] revealed that PV technologies may be constrained by the availability of key materials, hampering their growth potential and their ability to sustain cost reduction trends in the future.”
A cost roadmap for silicon heterojunction solar cells (2016, background): “Still, we assume our prospective designs to be ITO-free, as there are concerns about the availability of indium [59,60] and ZnO targets were calculated to be slightly cheaper.”