cadmium telluride
: an artificially created crystalline compound CdTe that is used especially in the manufacture of photovoltaic cells
… after many years of development, cadmium telluride … modules have become the lowest-cost producer of solar electricity, despite working at lower efficiency than crystalline silicon cells.— Ken Zweibel First Known Use of cadmium telluride
1885, in the meaning defined above
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