Natural resource limitations to terawatt solar cell deployment

ECS Transactions

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3-11

  Tao, Coby S ^a   Jiang, Jiechao ^b   Tao, Meng ^b  

^a Grapevine High School   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NATURAL RESOURCES; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CELL DEPLOYMENT; ENERGY DEMANDS; HIGH-ENERGY INPUT; MATERIAL SCARCITY; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY; SOURCE OF ENERGY; TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84856654450     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/1.3553342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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