Talk:Thin-film solar cell

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There is a number of articles that are discussing thin film solar cells technologies separately. Thin Film Solar Cells IS regarded as ONE category of solar cells so I suppose that all relevant solar cell types should be put under the same article. What should be kept in separate articles is the various thin film materials where their properties, deposition processes, etc. can be mentioned. I am in the middle of a big group project about thin film photovoltaics and will be updating this article with references and material frequently. Please join me and lets give TFSC the decent article that they deserve.--Elmerfadd (talk) 05:00, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Having read this article and the main Solar Cell article, I still have no idea why thin film solar cells are considered a distinct class. It is not as if "bulk" solar cells do not utilize thin films, or thin films do not utilize bulky substrates. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.10.143.67 (talk) 17:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

This article needs to be reorganized
The first part of this article should be under a section called "Types".

The "Time Award" section is ridiculus at the top. It is also just about useless. If it really has to be in this article, it should be placed at the end.

The word "efficiency" appears in the titles for sections 2, 3.3 and 5. I would be intelligent to merge everything into a single section called "efficiency".

ICE77 (talk) 01:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Plagiarism and copyright infringement
Major Significant chunks of this article have been lifted whole from Renewable Energy News and one bit is a quote from the GBI report that was in the REN article but is copied here without the quote marks! It appears that User:Hamiltha is responsible for this material in a single contiguous series of edits on July 9, 2010. Hamiltha is bocked as a suspected sockpuppet of User:Mac who is also blocked. I'm in favor of removing this material. Here's the relevant. Joja lozzo  20:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Other suspected sockpuppets (also blocked) of User:Mac who have contributed here: User:Nopetro and User:Nudecline. Joja lozzo  21:18, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Some more edits that include direct copies of referenced text without quotation marks or paraphrase:
 * Nopetro: Thin-film solar module manufacturer, First Solar topped the rankings list for PV module suppliers in 2009, surpassing all of its crystalline rivals to ship more than a gigawatt (GW) of modules and become the industry's largest supplier.
 * Nopetro: The NREL Thin Film Partnership Program supports progress in thin-film technologies.
 * Nopetro: High speed roll-to-roll printing of polymer solar cells may potentially produce as many square meters of solar cells in an hour as a crystalline Silicon solar cell plant produces a year.

Another Mac sockpuppet (also blocked): User:Nukeless. Joja lozzo  22:40, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Error in image legend
The image "Illust poly thinfilm.gif" (top-right of article) seems to need rectifying. See legend: "Junction formed between two semiconductor materials of opposite"... opposite "what"? Could somebody advise before I submit image to Wikipedia workshop? Thanks VelhinhoEstoniano (talk) 07:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Outdated
Wow, this is the first article I read in wikipedia that is totally outdated. 2013??? 45.229.199.41 (talk) 15:50, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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