Exit strategy: Veeco’s departure from CIGS thin-film PV equipment space raises questions, concerns
Veeco’s decision to bail out of the copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film PV systems business may not have been a total shocker, but the OEM’s move still caught many in the industry off guard. The transformation from “integrated equipment provider to the rapidly growing CIGS solar market” to “don’t let the door hit you on the way out of the market” seems to have accelerated over the past quarter.