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XsunX gets set to demonstrate CIGSolar system
Having completed assembly of its CIGSolar TFPV solar cell system, the company is beginning to ready the system for customer demonstrations
XsunX, the developer of CIGSolar, a patent-pending solar cell manufacturing process, has recently completed the assembly of its baseline CIGSolar TFPV solar cell evaporation system.
The company is now fast tracking start-up, testing, and calibration of its new CIGSolar technology for customer demonstrations.
“With the successful completion of the system assembly, interested customers have been contacting us to schedule system demonstrations of the CIGSolar system,” says Tom Djokovich, CEO of XsunX, Inc. “We are as excited and eager as they are, so we are working with these customers to address their questions and schedule on-site meetings while preparing our CIGSolar evaporator for deposition demonstrations. Many of the potential customers are interested in the smaller footprint and cost-competiveness of our scalable system to service regional demand and employment goals.”
Worldwide demand for solar products continues to grow with new installations on track to reach about 30 GW in 2012 - that’s the equivalent of adding about twenty seven 1.1GW nuclear reactors. So while it is easy to see that solar power production continues to grow in impact and importance, the solar industry itself has been experiencing limitations to furthering cost reductions.
What's more, the rapid pricing erosions over the last two years have left manufacturers with either negative operating margins or they have been forced out of business. The industry’s need, and the focus of CIGSolar TFPV cell evaporation technology, is to provide manufacturers a path to further cost reductions and an opportunity to restore operating margins.
The company’s technology, of which samples were certified delivering 15.91 percent average efficiency in testing conducted by NREL, utilises multi-small area thermal co-evaporation for rapid deposition of final-sized cells to better control the complex management of the CIGS layer deposition process.
The company’s method, unlike other CIGS manufacturing technology, begins and ends using individual thin stainless steel substrates matched in size to silicon cells for use as an alternative to silicon cells for existing module assembly lines.
In addition to providing for a smaller and more precise deposition environment, the CIGSolar process also helps to avoid performance losses experienced when cells are either cut from rolls of manufactured CIGS material or mismatched electrically in monolithic assemblies.
The company is now fast tracking start-up, testing, and calibration of its new CIGSolar technology for customer demonstrations.
“With the successful completion of the system assembly, interested customers have been contacting us to schedule system demonstrations of the CIGSolar system,” says Tom Djokovich, CEO of XsunX, Inc. “We are as excited and eager as they are, so we are working with these customers to address their questions and schedule on-site meetings while preparing our CIGSolar evaporator for deposition demonstrations. Many of the potential customers are interested in the smaller footprint and cost-competiveness of our scalable system to service regional demand and employment goals.”
Worldwide demand for solar products continues to grow with new installations on track to reach about 30 GW in 2012 - that’s the equivalent of adding about twenty seven 1.1GW nuclear reactors. So while it is easy to see that solar power production continues to grow in impact and importance, the solar industry itself has been experiencing limitations to furthering cost reductions.
What's more, the rapid pricing erosions over the last two years have left manufacturers with either negative operating margins or they have been forced out of business. The industry’s need, and the focus of CIGSolar TFPV cell evaporation technology, is to provide manufacturers a path to further cost reductions and an opportunity to restore operating margins.
The company’s technology, of which samples were certified delivering 15.91 percent average efficiency in testing conducted by NREL, utilises multi-small area thermal co-evaporation for rapid deposition of final-sized cells to better control the complex management of the CIGS layer deposition process.
The company’s method, unlike other CIGS manufacturing technology, begins and ends using individual thin stainless steel substrates matched in size to silicon cells for use as an alternative to silicon cells for existing module assembly lines.
In addition to providing for a smaller and more precise deposition environment, the CIGSolar process also helps to avoid performance losses experienced when cells are either cut from rolls of manufactured CIGS material or mismatched electrically in monolithic assemblies.
