XsunX Achieves Milestone in Development of Power Glass Thin Films :
XsunX Achieves Milestone in Development of Power Glass Thin Films : Development Efforts Produce Laser Scribed Modules on Plastic Films
Press Release /Date: 11/9/2006
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XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX), provider of technologies for solar energy infrastructure and developer of Power Glass™, an innovative thin-film solar technology that is intended to allow glass windows to produce electricity from the power of the sun, today announced that the Company produced its first series connected solar modules on Polyethylenenapthalate, or PEN, based thin film plastics using proprietary laser scribing techniques.
This product development progress bolsters the Company’s three primary projects: the development of semi-transparent thin film solar cells for use on transparent substrates, the development of high performance thin film nano-crystalline 4-Terminal solar cells, and, the assembly of a hybrid manufacturing system for the delivery of these new cell types.
The Company’s process uses transparent PEN based plastic as a substrate to deposit the Power Glass solar cell into a monolithically appearing sheet of tinted film. The new laser scribing processes allow the Company to segment only the various layers of the solar cell without harming the plastic substrate. This segmentation process allows the positive and negative layers of the cell structure to interconnect during the manufacturing process. Much like placing the batteries correctly in a flashlight this connection of positive and negative layers is necessary to allow the energy produced by the solar cell to flow through the solar module and deliver power.
“Our concurrent efforts to develop new types of thin film solar cells and complete the assembly of our first production system continue to make significant progress,” stated Tom Djokovich, XsunX’s CEO. “This latest milestone in the effort to develop a method to employ the use of lasers to segment and allow for the interconnection of the individual solar cells into monolithically appearing sheets of tinted plastic films is exactly where we needed to go. Getting this process to work on PEN films has not been an easy task but the results provide us with minimally apparent interconnects between the individual solar cells. This was part of our overall product design to improve esthetics and increase the active or working area of the module to as close to 100% as possible,” concluded Djokovich. The Company will next work to fine tune these new laser scribing methods and integrate these processes into its manufacturing systems. More information can be found at the Company’s website: http://www.XsunX.com.