FTEL:CC - First Tellurium Reports that Tellurite Glass Generates Electricity from UV and Visible Light

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The technology could be used to turn glass windows intopower-generating solar panels.

Vancouver, BC, Canada – TheNewswire - February 8, 2024 – First Tellurium Corp. (CSE: FTEL ) ( OTC: FSTTF ), reports thatscientists have transformed transparent, tellurite glass into aphotovoltaic surface that generates electricity. The technology could be used toturn glass windows into power-generating solar panels.

A February 2 article in TechRadar reported that the revolutionarydiscovery was made by physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology Lausanne (EPFL) in collaboration with scientists from TokyoTech. Led by the Galatea Lab in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, researchersexposed tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light, a well-establishedtechnology used in eye surgeries. This process led to the unexpecteddiscovery of nanoscale tellurium and tellurium oxide crystals, bothsemiconducting materials, forming where the glass was exposed to thelaser.

Yves Bellouard, who heads the Galatea Lab, stated,"We wondered if it would be possible to write durable patterns onthe tellurite glass surface that could reliably induce electricitywhen exposed to light, and the answer is yes.” After etching asimple line pattern onto the glass and exposing it to UV light and thevisible spectrum, the researchers found it could generate a currentconsistently for months.

Tyrone Docherty, President and CEO of First Tellurium,stated, “As we’ve noted many times, science keeps finding excitingnew uses for tellurium. In this case, the potential for generatingclean power is enormous.”

Transparent solar power windows, first developed by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) in 2014,are already in limited use in the US and Europe. The MSU team claimsthat widespread use of highly transparent solar applications, togetherwith rooftop units, could nearly meet U.S. electricity demand anddrastically reduce the use of fossil fuels.

The new tellurite glass surface, however, could providea significant advantage over current transparent solar technology. Bellouard noted that the process requires no additional materials,only tellurite glass and a femtosecond laser, which may offersignificant savings in materials and manufacturing.

As solar glass engineer Richard Lunt explains: “Youcould turn nearly every surface of a building or landscape into asolar array and generate power right where you use it without evenknowing that it’s there.”

“We will be following this development with greatinterest,” said Docherty.

About First Tellurium Corp.

First Tellurium’s unique business model is togenerate revenue and value through mineral discovery, projectdevelopment, project generation and cooperative access to untappedmineral regions in Indigenous territory with sustainableexploration.

Our Klondike tellurium-gold property in Colorado andpolymetallic Deer Horn Project in British Columbia anchor adiversified search for metals, working in alliance with Indigenouspeoples, NGOs, governments and leading metals buyers. This is thefuture of mineral exploration—generating revenue by exploringresponsibly and leveraging diverse partnerships.

First Tellurium proudly adheres to, and supports, theprinciples and rights set out in the United Nations Declaration on theRights of Indigenous Peoples and in particular the fundamentalproposition of free, prior and informed consent. First Tellurium islisted on the Canadian Stock Exchange under the symbol “FTEL” andon the OTC under the symbol “FSTTF”. Further information aboutFTEL and its projects can be found on www.firsttellurium.com .

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