# 5N Plus Inc. (TSX:VNP)

> 5N Plus is a leading global producer of specialty semiconductors and performance materials, deploying proprietary technologies to develop and manufacture advanced materials that are core components of customers' products.

## About

5N Plus is a leading global producer of specialty semiconductors and performance materials, deploying proprietary technologies to develop and manufacture advanced materials that are core components of customers' products. The company emphasizes technology and innovation, creating critical materials essential to daily life through world-class R&D and manufacturing capabilities.

## Key facts

- **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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Ingot\n- Powder\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Imaging and Sensing","Cadmium 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Ingot\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Zinc Telluride","Zinc 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Ingot\n- Powder\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Imaging and Sensing\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Cadmium Telluride\n- Cadmium Zinc Telluride","Lead 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Lead Bromide\n- Lead Iodide","Lead 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Lead Chloride\n- Lead Iodide","Lead 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Lead Chloride\n- Lead Bromide","Cesium 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Cesium Bromide\n- Cesium Iodide","Cesium 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Cesium Chloride\n- Cesium Iodide","Cesium 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- Fine Powder\n- Tailored Particles\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n\n#### Also available\n\n- Cesium Chloride\n- Cesium Bromide","Germanium\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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- 100 mm\n- 150 mm\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Terrestrial Renewable Energy\n- Space Solar Power","Indium 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\n#### Available Forms\n\n- 125 mm\n\n#### Markets\n\n- Imaging and Sensing","Triple-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\n#### Markets\n\n- Space Solar Power","Assemblies\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\n#### Markets\n\n- Space Solar Power","Quadruple 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\n#### Markets\n\n- Space Solar Power","Triple-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\n#### Markets\n\n- Space Solar Power","Quintuple-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\n#### Markets\n\n- Space Solar Power","Enhanced 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\n#### Markets\n\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)

_Verified data last updated: 2026-08-14_

## Recent filings

- 2026-08-04 — other — [vnp_2026-08-04_12-08-13.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/107560?documentId=107560)
- 2026-08-04 — other — [vnp_2026-08-04_12-08-12.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/107561?documentId=107561)
- 2026-08-04 — financials — [vnp_2026-08-04_12-07-41.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/107562?documentId=107562)
- 2026-08-04 — press_release — [vnp_2026-08-04_12-07-10.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/107563?documentId=107563)
- 2026-05-11 — proxy — [vnp_2026-05-11_12-11-10.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/77644?documentId=77644)
- 2026-05-07 — press_release — [vnp_2026-05-07_23-31-47.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/77645?documentId=77645)
- 2026-05-07 — press_release — [vnp_2026-05-07_23-31-16.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/77646?documentId=77646)
- 2026-05-06 — mda — [vnp_2026-05-06_20-05-27.pdf](https://ai-chat-dev-red.vercel.app/vnp/preview/77647?documentId=77647)

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