founded 2002 as midwest optoelectronics llc headquarters toledo ohio u.s. website http web.archive.org web 20110501101629 http www.xunlight.com xunlight corporation was a venture backed advanced technology company that specialized in the development of high performance flexible and lightweight solar modules . founded in 2002 the company was established to commercialize solar technology that was developed the university of toledo s thin film silicon photovoltaic laboratory . xunlight used a high speed roll to roll manufacturing process to develop thin film silicon based photovoltaic solutions . 1 in 2014 the company filed for bankruptcy . 2 contents 1 history 2 2002 2007 from founding to factory 2.1 january 2002 2.2 may 2003 2.3 january 2006 2.4 april 2006 2.5 may 2007 2.6 july 2007 3 2008 3.1 april 3.2 june 3.3 december 4 2009 4.1 june 4.2 september 5 2014 6 references history edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . march 2013 2002 2007 from founding to factory edit january 2002 edit midwest optoelectronics llc mwoe was established to commercialize technologies developed at the university of toledo . may 2003 edit mwoe receives its first grant from doe sbir . january 2006 edit mwoe and ut reach an exclusive license agreement for four sets of technology portfolios developed in the thin film silicon photovoltaic laboratory . april 2006 edit xunlight aka mwoe solar was formed and all mwoe operations were reorganized into xunlight . may 2007 edit xunlight receives series a investment of 7 million . july 2007 edit xunlight moves its headquarters from the incubator at the university of toledo to a 122 000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility at 3145 nebraska ave. 2008 edit april edit xunlight receives series b investment of 33 million . june edit xunlight receives 5 million grant from ohio department of development . xunlight demonstrates first solar cell deposition on 2mw roll to roll pilot production line . december edit xunlight receives 7 million loan from the state of ohio . 2009 edit june edit xunlight successfully completes the installation and demonstration of its 25mw high throughput wide web roll to roll photovoltaic manufacturing process . september edit xunlight delivers and installs its first shipment of solar modules to its first customer the university of toledo . 3 2014 edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . june 2015 references edit archived copy . archived from the original on may 1 2011 . retrieved may 22 2011 . cs1 maint unfit url link 2011 xunlight corporation 1 2014 toledo blade archived copy . archived from the original on may 1 2011 . retrieved may 22 2011 . cs1 maint unfit url link 2011 xunlight corporation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title xunlight corporation & oldid 730853468 categories solar energy companies of the united stateshidden categories cs1 maint unfit urlpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles to be expanded from march 2013all articles to be expandedarticles with empty sections from march 2013all articles with empty sectionsarticles using small message boxesarticles to be expanded from june 2015articles with empty sections from june 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 july 2016 at 12 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view