Materials availability expands the opportunity for large-scale photovoltaics deployment.

By Cyrus Wadia, A. P. Alivisatos, Daniel M. Kammen. Environmental Science and Technology, 2009

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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• Implications for CdTe and CIGS technologies production costs of indium and tellurium scarcity (2012, background): “Perhaps unsurprisingly, the studies reach different conclusions in terms of CdTe and CIGS technologies future potential, with some more concerned about indium availability constraints [13,15] and other considering tellurium scarcity the major challenge [12,16,17].”
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