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]

References

^ "MiaSolé Thin Film Solar Panels: Complete Review | EnergySage". 3 June 2021.
^ "About us", Midsummer. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
^ 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.
^ "Story". sunplugged. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
^ "Technology". Solar Cloth. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^ "Die halbe Solarfabrik steht leer". 6 January 2022.
^ "Another blow to thin film, as Solar Frontier quits manufacturing and switches sides". 3 November 2021.
^ "Solarion wird abgewickelt". Stefan Schroeter. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
^ "TSMC Solar—CIGS is Now a Reality". TSMC Solar. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
^ "TSMC Pulls Plug on Solar Business". EE Times. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
^ "Veeco drops CIGS solar systems biz", Renewable Energy World, 8.1.2011. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

[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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