Cadmium Sulfide - Applications

Applications

CdS is predominantly used as a pigment. About 2000 tons are produced annually.

CdS and cadmium selenide are used in manufacturing of photoresistors (light dependent resistors) sensitive to visible and near infrared light.

In thin-film form, CdS can be combined with other layers for use in certain types of solar cells. CdS was also one of the first semiconductor materials to be used for thin-film transistors (TFTs). However interest in compound semiconductors for TFTs largely waned after the emergence of amorphous silicon technology in the late 1970s.