List of CIGS companies explained

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

• • Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells (CIGS technology)
• Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS absorber material)
• List of photovoltaics companies
• Solar cell
• Thin film solar cell

Notes and References

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