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NuvoSun 's solar cells and modules are made by applying a semiconducting film of copper indium gallium diselenide, or CIGS, on a stainless-steel foil.

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Newer conductive materials (including, amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride and copper indium diselenide) only need to be about one micron thick, so material costs are significantly reduced.

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Practical theoretical efficiencies for monojunctional cells, under regular light, are about 30 to 33 percent for crystalline silicon, 27 to 28 percent for amorphous silicon, 27 to 28 percent for thin-film cadrnium telluride, 23.5 percent for thin-film copper indium diselenide, and 33 percent for crystalline gallium arsenide.

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After manufacture, sealed modules of copper indium diselenide contain small quantities of selenium, sandwiched between glass layers.

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Environmental Protection Agency on copper indium diselenide solar cells (which also contain a layer of cadmium sulfide; see the section on thin-film cells).

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Hydrogen selenide, used as a feedstock in copper indium diselenide thin-cell manufacture, is an extremely toxic gas.

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Copper indium diselenide is also both being used in various designs of multijunctional cells (U.S. DOE 1991).

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Efficiencies of copper indium diselenide PV cells are in the range of 14 to 15 percent, with prototype modules demonstrating efficiencies of 11 percent (see in Figure 4.5).

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The solar cells themselves are made from either silicon or certain heavy metals, such as gallium arsenide. cadmium telluride, and copper indium diselenide.

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Wrapped around the inner tube were 150 solar cells made from copper, indium, gallium and diselenide, rather than silicon.

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