XsunX Announces Completed Hybrid CIGS Thin-film Solar Device
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Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

January 6, 2010... XsunX of Aliso Viejo, California USA announced the completion of a fully-functional copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar device.   The company is reportedly pioneering a hybrid solar cell technology that adapts manufacturing processes from the hard disk drive (HDD) industry to produce CIGS solar cells deposited on stainless steel substrate with “pseudo square” configuration. XsunX believes that this can replace traditional silicon wafer solar cells.  

“With this completed sample we have reached a critical milestone in our development process, achieved through the vigilant efforts of our engineers and trusted business partner,” said Tom Djokovich, CEO, XsunX, Inc. “This initial achievement illustrates a realistic set of company goals and demonstrates the strength of our relationships with the business and technical expertise that kept us on track.”  

  “Approaches to mass-scale production of CIGS thin-film cells today introduce processing defects that significantly reduce cell performance,” said Robert Wendt, CTO, XsunX, Inc. “Because we are leveraging stationary small-area, high-rate, production technologies and not scaling up to large area processing, we’re able to strive for laboratory-metric conversion efficiencies.”    

XsunX says it will evaluate data concerning performance and conversion efficiency to continue to fine-tune each cell layer based on input collected from small-area devices. Ultimately the company hopes to perfect its engineering designs. XsunX News Release

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