How to Use cadmium telluride in a Sentence

cadmium telluride

noun

• For nearly two weeks the worms ingested the toxic salts and, just as the researchers had hoped, the isolated salts combined in the worms' guts to form quantum dots of cadmium telluride (CdTe) coated in organic chemicals.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2012
• It is combined with cadmium to make cadmium telluride, which is then used to make panels that are more efficient than selenium solar panels.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• Toledo Solar by contrast, like neighboring cadmium telluride giant First Solar, uses a thin film semiconductor that’s just a fraction of the thickness of a human hair.
  — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
• This has resulted in large price increases in recent years as demand has soared for both thermoelectric and CdTe solar [cadmium telluride photovoltaic solar cells—the second most common ones on the market].
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• Manufactured by First Solar, cadmium telluride panels have been deployed around the world and have exceeded safety standards despite the presence of an element far more toxic than lead: cadmium.
  — Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
• On a recent afternoon at the Ohio factory, an endless line of glass panels traveled through machines that deposited layers of cadmium telluride and other materials.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• The new funds include some money toward developing two alternatives: perovskite and cadmium telluride solar cells.
  — Isabella O’Malley and Jennifer McDermott, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The core of a quantum dot is typically composed of a heavy metal, such as cadmium selenium or cadmium telluride, although more recently quantum dots made from other materials are also possible.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Jones-Albertus said that in cadmium telluride solar technology, the compound is stable and encapsulated in glass and additional protective layers.
  — Isabella O'Malley and Jennifer McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The company uses a different semiconductor compound called cadmium telluride, applying it to glass panels in an ultrathin layer using a method developed by McMaster and his university colleagues.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024