Lucintech Inc, was co-founded by Alvin Compaan and Xunming Deng as a spin-out technology company from The University of Toledo in January 2008. (Lucintech was formerly Xunlight 26 Solar, LLC, until it became independent of Xunlight Corp. in 2012. In October 2014 it moved to its present location in the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Center on the edge of The University of Toledo (UT) campus.) Lucintech has licensed sputter deposition technology from UT that was developed under more than 20 years of research in the II-VI Thin-Film PV Laboratory of Prof. Alvin Compaan. Since 2008, Lucintech’s technology development has been supported by more than $1.4M in private funding and more than $3.3Mof non-dilutive grants and contracts from the Ohio Third Frontier, NSF-SBIR, DOE-STTR, Rocket Ventures, Homeland Security, and the Flextech Consortium. Lucintech also is developing next-generation technology enhancements in collaboration with UT’s PV Innovation and Commercialization Center (PVIC).