The world's biggest thin-film maker, indeed the biggest solar-cell manufacturer, is BP Solar, a division of BP Amoco.
This year First Solar will likely be the third biggest in the world after Germany's Q-Cells and China's Suntech Power and by far the world's biggest thin-film maker.
Other parts of the government, however, show more interest in investment in thin-film makers than domestic silicon-wafer producers, as evidenced by First Solar's deal in Mongolia.
The first to realise that memory chips could be made from bistable polymers was Thin Film Electronics, a device maker in Linkoping, Sweden.
MiaSolé, a thin-film panel maker, closed the largest round in that period, $106 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Firelake Capital and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
Colorado-based Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ ASTII) — the makers of flexible, thin film modules under the brand name WaveSol — scored a distribution deal with Cyprus-based SW Solarwatt Ltd. the companies announced today.
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