List of notable companies manufacturing copper indium gallium selenide solar cells (CIGS):
Former companies or companies that no longer produce CIGS modules:
- 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]
- 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
- Category:Thin-film cell manufacturers
- 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
References
- MiaSolé Thin Film Solar Panels: Complete Review | EnergySage 3 June 2021^
- "About us", Midsummer. Retrieved 19 May 2022.^
- Kelly Pickerel. U.S. thin-film solar panel company Sunflare will expand its Chinese manufacturing facility with new equipment Solar Power World, WTWH Media, 27 December 2018, 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.^