Product
Cadmium Telluride
A semiconductor compound made from cadmium and tellurium, used as the light-absorbing layer in thin-film solar panels, an alternative to silicon-based photovoltaic technology.
Covered in 2 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence articles, most recently on August 27, 2026.
Coverage
Tellurium
First Solar's Tellurium Solar Panels Sit Outside New US Tariffs Arriving December 4
A new US tariff and price floor on imported solar panels takes effect December 4. First Solar's tellurium-based panels, built at its $1.1 billion Louisiana plant, aren't covered by it.
Tellurium
Rio Tinto's Utah Copper Mine Builds a 30-Megawatt Solar Plant From Its Own Waste Tellurium
Rio Tinto's Kennecott copper mine in Utah extracts tellurium from anode slime, copper refining's leftover waste, then uses that tellurium in solar panels now powering 30 megawatts of the mine's own operations.
