Researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom have designed a cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell with a buffer layer made of nickel oxide (NiO) deposited without oxygen, which ...

Mined chiefly from two ore families, sulfides and laterites, nickel is a shiny, silver-white, face-centred cubic transition metal that is hard, ductile, and easily alloyed. 1 Several features make it ...

The diagram shows the position of nickel in the group of 3d elements, its electron configuration, as well as the structures of several typical nickelates and the valence states of nickel atoms within ...

A group of researchers at the Odtu-Gunam research institute in Turkiye claims to have fabricated a TOPCon solar cell with a nickel (Ni) contact and significantly lower silver (Ag) content, with the ...