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5N Plus is a leading global producer of specialty semiconductors and performance materials, utilizing proprietary technologies to develop advanced materials that are core components of customer products.

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5N Plus is a leading global producer of specialty semiconductors and performance materials, utilizing proprietary technologies to develop advanced materials that are core components of customer products. The company emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and a commitment to excellence in its operations.

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Shares outstanding
89042801
Fully diluted shares
89748936
Projects
["Cadmium Telluride\n\n5N - 7N\n\n5N Plus is the leading supplier of cadmium telluride (CdTe) to the solar cell (photovoltaic) industry. Typically requiring 5N purity, cadmium telluride is a semiconductor that enables the efficient conversion of solar energy into electricity.\n\nCdTe is also used to manufacture nuclear radiation detectors (X-ray and gamma ray) for medical use.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nCadmium Zinc Telluride\n\n6N - 7N\n\nCadmium zinc telluride (CZT) is used to manufacture radiation detectors (X-ray and gamma ray) that do not require cooling and that produce excellent resolution by directly converting radiation into an electric signal. Raw materials (cadmium, tellurium and zinc) of very high purity are required to manufacture this type of detector.\n\nMarkets\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nAlso available\n- Zinc Telluride\n\nZinc Telluride\n\n5N - 7N\n\nZinc telluride (ZnTe) is a semiconductor compound used in optoelectronic applications, as well as in cadmium telluride (CdTe) based solar cells and terahertz radiation detectors.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nAlso available\n- Cadmium Telluride\n- Cadmium Zinc Telluride\n\nLead Chloride\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including lead chloride (PbCl2), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Lead Bromide\n- Lead Iodide\n\nLead Bromide\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including lead bromide (PbBr2), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Lead Chloride\n- Lead Iodide\n\nLead Iodide\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including lead iodide (PbI2), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Lead Chloride\n- Lead Bromide\n\nCesium Chloride\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including cesium chloride (CsCl), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Cesium Bromide\n- Cesium Iodide\n\nCesium Bromide\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including cesium bromide (CsBr), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Cesium Chloride\n- Cesium Iodide\n\nCesium Iodide\n\n4N5+\n\n5N Plus offers a full range of inorganic perovskite precursor compounds, including cesium iodide (CsI), for use in high-efficiency solar cells that convert solar energy into electricity.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\nAlso available\n- Cesium Chloride\n- Cesium Bromide\n\nWafers\n\nGermanium\n\n5N Plus manufactures and customizes high purity, dislocation-free, electrically-uniform Germanium wafers to meet demanding space solar and land-based solar applications.\n\nMarkets\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Space Solar Power\n\nIndium Antimonide\n\n5N Plus manufactures and customizes class-leading, high-purity Indium Antimonide wafers that provide superior resistivity, uniformity and lowest defects through a unique, unmatched crystal-growth method. The wafers are used in advanced thermal imaging solutions, focal planar arrays and high-precision magnetic and rotary resistivity sensors.\n\nMarkets\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nInfra-Red LEDs\n\nIII-V Infra-red LEDs on GaAs wafers emit light at a customizable wavelength with high uniformity and high efficiency.\n\nMarkets\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nLaser Power Converters\n\nLeveraging our multi-juction technology we offer light receivers, which can convert monochromatic light from a laser or LED source into electricity at very high efficiencies beyond 60% and with high voltages without additional amplification or transformation.\n\nMarkets\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nPower Diodes\n\nGaAs power diodes with high break-through voltages of 1200 V and more and high ampacity for high efficiency electronic applications are available in different designs for corresponding currents.\n\nMarkets\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\nSolar Cells\n\nTriple-Junction Cells\n\nAZUR SPACE has already delivered over 5 million triple-junction solar cells in a variety of dimensions to a wide range of customers. These triple-junction cells comprise a GaInP, GaAs andGe subcell on Ge substrate. The 3G30-Advanced product family (efficiency class 30%) includes AZUR’s proprietary radiation-hardening design and offers first grade EOL-performance values for a 3-junction design at low cell mass and lowest prices per watt. Various designs of the 3G30 family have been qualified in alignment with ECSS standards. The cell should be combined with an external bypass diode for protection within a cell string.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power\n\nAssemblies\n\nSolar cell assemblies (SCAs) are space solutions with a higher integration level. Based on our high-efficiency solar cells of the 3G30 or 4G32 product families, the assemblies are additionally equipped with space grade cover glasses, a bypass diode and offer a variety of electrical interconnectors. All materials and components are space-qualified and various SCA designs have been qualified in alignment with ECSS and AIAA standards.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power\n\nQuadruple Junction Cells\n\nAZUR SPACE produces an AlInGaP/AlInGaAs/InGaAs/Ge on Ge substrate quadruple-junction solar cell product family 4G32-Advanced (efficiency class 32%) including AZUR’s proprietary radiation-hardening design offering best-in-class power at EOL, low cell mass at reduced substrate thickness and highest power per area by superior utilisation of the solar spectrum. At the same time these cells offer extraordinary high voltages and enable superior panel layouts. Various designs of the 4G32 family have been qualified in alignment with ECSS and AIAA standards.The cell should be combined with an external bypass diode for protection within a cell string.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power\n\nTriple-Junction CPV\n\n5N Plus produces an InGaP/InGaAs/Ge on Ge substrate triple- junction CPV solar cell product family 3C44-Advanced (efficiency class 44%) including AZUR’s proprietary design to operate at highest concentration levels (1000 suns and more). The 3C44 offers high conversion efficiencies at low $/W levels.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power\n\nQuintuple-Junction CPV\n\n5N Plus produces an AlInGaP/InGaP/AlInGaAs/InGaAs/Ge on Ge substrate quintuple-junction solar cell product family 5C46-Advanced (efficiency class 46%) including AZUR’s proprietary metamorphic design offering best-in-class power by superior utilisation of the solar spectrum, especially at CPV operating conditions. At the same time these cells offer lower operating temperatures and extraordinary high voltages and hence enable high-efficiency module designs.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power\n\nEnhanced Fresnel Assemblies\n\nEFAs mount our 3C44 or 5C46 CPV solar cells onto a heat sink with integrated contacts for further module interconnection and a secondary optical lens to further concentrate and homogenize the incoming concentrated sunlight.\n\nMarkets\n- Space Solar Power"]
Leadership
Gervais Jacques (Executive Chair), Luc Bertrand (Lead Independent Director - Chairman of the Governance and Compensation Committee - Member Audit and Risk Management), Michael Hanley (Independent - Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee), Blair Dickerson (Independent - Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee), Andrée-Lise Méthot (Independent - Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee - Member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee), Richard Perron (President and Chief Executive Officer), Alban Fournier (Chief Financial Officer), Paul Tancell (Executive Vice President, Performance Materials), Roland Dubois (Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President, Specialty Semiconductors)

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