{"id":25183,"date":"2024-07-20T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T05:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25183"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:25:51","slug":"cadmium-telluride-cdte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cadmium-telluride-cdte\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadmium Telluride (CdTe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Cadmium Telluride:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a material made from the combination of two elements: <strong>Cadmium<\/strong> (Cd) and <strong>Tellurium <\/strong>(Te).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is an odorless and black <strong>crystalline solid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Properties<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>insoluble in water<\/strong> but <strong>resolves in nitrate acid<\/strong>, and resulting oxidation in moisture air under long time exposure.<\/li>\n<li>It has lowest carbon dioxide emissions, ozone depletion potential, human health effects, and particulate air pollution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications:<\/strong> It is considered a prospective material for the room temperature semiconductor detector application such as an infrared optical window and lens, thin film solar cell material.\n<ul>\n<li>CdTe is the second most common Photo Voltaic (PV) technology in the world, after silicon.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was one of five solar cell technologies on which the IIT scientists conducted a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to identify the most sustainable options for solar energy production in India.<\/li>\n<li>The other four were <strong>mono-silicon, polysilicon, Copper Indium Gallium Selenide<\/strong> (CIGS), and Passivated Emitter &amp; Rear Contact (PERC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a photovoltaic (PV) cell?<\/h3>\n<p>It is commonly called a solar cell, is a nonmechanical device that converts sunlight directly into electricity. Some PV cells can convert artificial light into electricity. Sunlight is composed of photons, or particles of solar energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/energy\/iit-mandi-researchers-assess-environmental-impact-of-solar-cells-heres-what-they-found\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IIT Mandi researchers assess environmental impact of solar cells: Here\u2019s what they found<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) is a material made from the combination of two elements: Cadmium (Cd) and Tellurium (Te).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}