Experts have found that the rare metals required to build solar panels such as indium and tellurium are not in sufficient supply to keep up with demand.
Rare earth metals for solar panels.
Thin film pv technologies for example contain potentially critical metals such as tellurium.
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This means that global production of several rare earth minerals used.