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First Solar, Inc. is an American publicly traded manufacturer of solar panels, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, using rigid thin-film modules that employ cadmium telluride as a semiconductor. Its predecessor, Solar Cells, Inc., was founded in 1990 by inventor Harold McMaster, and was purchased in 1999 by True North Partners, LLC, led by Michael Ahearn, and rebranded as First Solar, Inc. The company trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker FSLR and is a component of the S&P 500.

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