Perovskite equipment makers

Aixtron AG is a provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The company's technology solutions are used to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials.

Aixtron trades in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and in the NASDAQ Stock Exchange (AIXG).

AIXTRON combines expertise and innovation required to develop highly complex technologies and manufacture what it describes as the most productive MOCVD systems in the world. The company aims to enable future applications, such as the LEDs, power electronics, and photovoltaic materials.

Aixtron works in close collaboration with renowned research centers, universities and industry partners. In addition, Aixtron will be advancing research on perovskite solar cells within the “PeroBOOST” project together with University of Cologne, Enerthing, Lunovu, SOLUXX, the Center for Organic Electronics Cologne (ZOEK), the Fraunhofer ISE Laboratory and Service Center Gelsenkirchen, and Duisburg-Essen University.

Bergfeld Lasertech is a Germany-based company that develops laser processes for material processing. With 17 years experience in laser process development, Bergfeld specializes in laser processes for the photovoltaic, organic and flexible electronics, display and lighting technology as well as the automotive industry and special research applications.

With its various laser systems in Aachen and at FH Aachen Campus Jülich, Bergfeld develops laser processes and does contract manufacturing projects. It offers various systems and equipment, including all types of laser systems and optical systems and assemblies for integration into machines and more. In addition, Bergfeld develops varied test systems and laboratory equipment.

BT Imaging is a global provider of luminescence imaging solutions for the photovoltaic R&D community and industry.

Its products are used not only by leading research organizations but also by various Tier 1 PV manufacturers for the inspection of crystalline silicon and thin film photovoltaic materials, solar cells and modules.

The Company creates customized solutions for its customers, adapting its products and applications to novel materials and devices, including the emerging class of perovskite solar cells.

Enli Technology is a manufacturer of scientific & metrological instruments. Enli is dedicated to providing Quantum Efficiency Measurement and IV characterization equipment, providing total solutions for various kinds of customers, from academia to industry.

Enli's solutions for perovskite research include measurement and analysis tools.

Denmark-based FOM Technologis develops slot-die coating machines for lab- and pilot-scale development of new functional thin film coatings and devices. The company was spun-off from the R2R materials & process research lab at the Technical University of Denmark.

FOM offers miniaturized slot-die coating tools for scalable perovskite PV development, and can provide customized R2R pilot lines from early-stage to production-ready processes.

FOM Technologies is a public company (NASDAQ: FOM.CO).

The company is part of a 3-year $4 million DoE-supported project that aims to develop industrial manufacturing processes of large area Perovskite tandem solar panels at Hanwha Q-cells' US-based factories.

Inert (established in 1981 and previously known as Innovative Technology) offers standardized and custom built Inert Atmosphere Gloveboxes, Gas Management Systems and Solvent Purification Systems.

infinityPV is a Danish company founded in 2014 by Frederik C. Krebs (CEO) along with 31 co-owners, whom all have years of applied scientific background dedicated to development of printed solar cells.

With the many co-owners, where several have more than fifteen years’ experience in the field of PV science and technology, the set-up of infinityPV is unique. The co-owners cover the entire value chain for printed electronics products and provide the company with a broad range of knowledge and know-how including chemists, material scientists, physicists, engineers, designers, electronics, technicians, printers, analysts and administrators.

The core of infinityPV is printed electronics and in particular printed organic solar cells, such as perovskite solar cells. infinityPV is based on several patents within the field of organic solar cells and holds a wide range of competencies in this area. The Company addresses a broad range of products ranging from solar panels over materials to characterization and production hardware/software for perovskite solar cells.

French equipment maker JACOMEX has been producing custom glove boxes and gas purification units since 1945.

JACOMEX supplies its technology to the industrial and scientific markets. It offers a wide range of purification systems to control moisture and oxygen at ppm-level, as well as high filtration systems and laminar flow techniques enabling pure clean atmospheres complying with semi-conductors, solar cells and perovskite devices.

JACOMEX supplies glove boxes with adjustable moistering parameters up to 40% RH or more, making the atmosphere optimized for perovskite research and development. The company offers turn-key solutions with full integrated equipment for preparation, deposition and characterization.

JACOMEX works jointly with the highly-specialized French company ALLIANCE-CONCEPT for the manufacturing of PVD systems.

Korea-based Kortherm Science (KOS) supplies laser based solutions.

The company's flagship μ-lab and μ-fab series laser equipment of KOS is used for the production of perovskite solar cells with high accuracy and precision for various processes like R2R (Roll to roll/ Reel to Reel) based, patterning, scribing, cutting etc.

Kurt J. Lesker Company, established in 1954 in the US and having facilities in the UK & China is a global provider of high-quality vacuum products and systems.

KJLC has been manufacturing physical vapor deposition (PVD) tools for perovskite research since the inception of the technology, having supplied many tools to leading research institutions globally. The KJLC eKLipse controls platform, working in conjunction with KJLC low temperature evaporation (LTE) or HydraVAP sources, enables highly controlled and precise recipe-driven perovskite precursor processing for reproducible growth dynamics of perovskite solar cell devices.

Established in 1988, nTact is engaged in the development and manufacture of advanced, high-precision slot die deposition (coating) systems.

nTact has been supplying slot-die coating solutions for the perovskite industry, and has delivered systems to almost 20 customers worldwide.

Japan-based Peccell Technologies was established in 2004 as a spin-out from Toin University of Yokohama to develop nanocemistry applications for the solar industry - with a focus on dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells.

Pecell develops and supplies solar cell materials and equipment and provides technical consulting services.