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    <periodOfReport>2016-03-10</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001350102</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>ASTI</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001546831</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>BIAO XU</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>12300 GRANT STREET</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>THORNTON</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>CO</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>80241</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>1</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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            <securityTitle>
                <value>No securities are beneficially owned.</value>
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                    <value>0</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
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                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeHolding>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <derivativeTable>
        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock Option (Right toi Buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>0.06</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2016-03-10</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>100000</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <value>2016-03-10</value>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <value>2016-03-10</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>100000</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>200000</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
    </derivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Does not include shares held by TFG Radiant Investment Group Ltd. (&quot;TFG Radiant&quot;), which is the Issuer's largest stockholder. Mr. Xu is an investor in TFG Radiant and disclaims beneficial ownership of shares held by TFG Radiant (except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The stock options vest in equal monthly installments beginning on April 10, 2016, such that the stock options are fully vested as of March 10, 2019.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>Xu Biao (aka Winston Xu) is a Board designee of TFG Radiant pursuant to the Amended and Restated Stockholders' Agreement between the Issuer and TFG Radiant, dated December 30, 2011.</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ James H. Carroll, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2016-03-14</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
