List of CIGS companies

List of notable companies manufacturing copper indium gallium selenide solar cells (CIGS):

  • Ascent Solar Technologies
  • Avancis (former subsidiary of Saint Gobain)
  • Miasolé[1]
  • Midsummer AB[2] (Swedish manufacturer of CIGS solar modules and sputtering equipment for thin-film solar cells)
  • Sunflare[3]
  • Sunplugged [4]
  • Solar Cloth [5]

Former companies or companies that no longer produce CIGS modules:

  • IBM
  • International Solar Electric Technology
  • Flisom (founded in 2005 as a spin-off company of ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Global Solar Energy (module producer, US-based subsidiary of Hanergy)
  • GSHK Solar (module producer, HK-based)
  • Hanergy-Solibro (former subsidiary of Q-Cells)
  • HelioVolt
  • Nanosolar
  • Nice (former Manz / Würth Solar)[6]
  • Odersun
  • Siva Power
  • Solar Frontier (subsidiary of Showa Shell Sekiyu)[7]
  • Solarion[8]
  • Soltecture (previously Sulfurcell)
  • Solyndra
  • Stion
  • TSMC Solar (subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing)[9][10]
  • Veeco Instruments Inc[11]


See also

References

  1. ^ "MiaSolé Thin Film Solar Panels: Complete Review | EnergySage". 3 June 2021.
  2. ^ "About us", Midsummer. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  3. ^ Pickerel, Kelly (27 December 2018). "U.S. thin-film solar panel company Sunflare will expand its Chinese manufacturing facility with new equipment". Solar Power World. WTWH Media. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Story". sunplugged. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Technology". Solar Cloth. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Die halbe Solarfabrik steht leer". 6 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Another blow to thin film, as Solar Frontier quits manufacturing and switches sides". 3 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Solarion wird abgewickelt". Stefan Schroeter. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  9. ^ "TSMC Solar—CIGS is Now a Reality". TSMC Solar. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  10. ^ "TSMC Pulls Plug on Solar Business". EE Times. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Veeco drops CIGS solar systems biz", Renewable Energy World, 8.1.2011. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
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