OUT Success Stories: Thin-Film PV: Leadership in Materials R and D

Book · Thu Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2000

OSTI ID:14516

Pitchford, P

Photovoltaics (PV) is a modern energy technology that makes use of semiconductor materials to convert sunlight directly to electricity. The idea of thin film technology is to produce truly low-cost PV devices by using pennies worth of active semiconductor materials.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-98GO10337
• OSTI ID: 14516
• Report Number(s): NREL/FS-330-23727; DOE/GO-10098-497; TRN: US200309%%350
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Supercedes report DE00014516; PBD: 8 Oct 1998; PBD: 31 Aug 2002; PBD: 31 Aug 2002; PBD: 31 Aug 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ELECTRICITY
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
THIN FILMS
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
COPPER
INDIUM
PHOTOVOLTAICS
PV
SOLAR CELLS
THIN-FILM
COPPER INDIUM GALLIUM DISELENIDE
PV MODULES
UTILITY MARKETS
ENERGY EFFICIENT
THIN-FILM MATERIALS