Of course with any sector that is dominated by growth stocks, finding the best bang for your buck is imperative. Picking small-cap solar stocks can be even more confusing, but one small-cap solar name that has the potential to shine brighter than its peers is XsunX (OTCBB: XSNX), a California-based company that manufactures solar-powered modules. The process the company uses to harness and deliver solar power can be somewhat confusing, but the bottom line is that XsunX uses components from computer hard drives to deliver solar energy in revolutionary fashion.

XsunX recently announced that has reached a major milestone in its development process that will allow the company to commercialize its manufacturing process more rapidly than previously expected. If nothing else, this indicates XsunX has an astute management team and that means strong stock fundamentals could be right around the corner.

Speaking of the shares, this is no run-of-the-mill small-cap stock. XsunX has impressive liquidity with average daily of over 500,000 shares. The solar sector has been on fire over the past year and XsunX is no exception as the shares are up 50%. The market always sorts the stock-related issues out, but the bottom line is that XsunX is the purveyor of some cutting-edge technology and that’s how the company could become a shining start in the solar arena.

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That makes stock selection within the solar sector a critical factor in an investor’s success. Picking among small-cap solar names can be a minefield, so it is imperative that investors find companies with real staying power. XsunX (OTCBB: XSNX) appears to be one such example. California-based XsunX focuses on the design and manufacture of solar-powered modules that are used to generate electricity. The company is in the process a proprietary manufacturing system used to deliver low-cost solar modules.

That could prove to be a fruitful endeavor for XsunX. After all, when oil prices are high, that’s when politicians start to clamor for alternative fuel sources, solar being one of those sources. Fortunately for investors in the solar sector, oil prices are high right now and show almost no signs of making a dramatic move lower.

The bottom line is the world of alternative energy has some dubious options and some worthwhile ones. Solar is definitely one of the worthwhile avenues and with the potential for explosive growth still available in the sector, XsunX may find itself delivering solid returns to shareholders as the industry continues to evolve.

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Completion of Hybrid Chamber Design Represents Significant Milestone

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:XSNX.ob – News), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, today announced the company has reached a significant milestone in its development process: the completion of a co-evaporation processing chamber design that combines several thermal evaporation techniques in one unified process to produce the CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) solar cell’s absorber layer.

“This development is crucial to both the equipment and process technology side of our efforts,” said Tom Djokovich, CEO of XsunX, Inc. “The completion of this chamber converges several operations that we have been developing separately, allowing all of the processes necessary to produce the CIGS layer for our cross-industry technology to work in unison.  This development increases the rate with which we can develop this new technology towards our initial baseline commercialization goals.  This is a fundamental next step in our plan to commercialize our hybrid CIGS manufacturing process, and deliver a potential replacement solution for the use of silicon.”

The hybrid cross-industry system XsunX is developing is an integrated delivery method that uses proven material handling and automation technologies from the Hard Disk equipment (HD) industry and adapts them to small-area thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) co-evaporation processes to configure the absorber layer, or solar power conversion portion of the cell, to produce low cost solar cells. The chamber will process 125 mm x 125 mm production-sized substrates that the company anticipates will be replicated as the key component of a full commercial production toolset, after additional testing of the chamber itself.

“This integration of numerous processing technologies into a single chamber design will allow us to begin testing the value of hard disk material handling and systems management technologies,” said XsunX’s CTO Robert Wendt. “From the start, we envisioned this chamber as the key to our ability to viably produce commercial quantities of CIGS solar cells using small-area processing techniques.”

Mr. Wendt further added, “We believe that a key component to our success lies in our use of the co-evaporation process on individual small-area substrates, or wafers similar in size to silicon wafers, to produce the solar absorbing portion of the solar cell.”

Co-evaporation has been at the forefront of technology development efforts at institutes worldwide such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) here in the USA, and other renowned agencies including the Institute of Energy Conversion/University of Delaware and Stuttgart in Germany. Each of these agencies has achieved world class efficiency conversion capability utilizing co-evaporation techniques.

Chamber completion is the result of experimentation and design modifications to both equipment and process technology, and in addition to being the foundation on which XsunX will continue to build its technology, also serves as a distinguishing advancement in the company’s intellectual capital portfolio. “From the beginning, we envisioned the completion of the chamber design, and its co-evaporation system, as a differentiating feat of the scientific team – a demonstration of their engineering and development prowess,” noted Djokovich.

About XsunX

XsunX specializes in the development and commercialization of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes. We are currently working to develop new proprietary manufacturing systems to deliver low cost solar products based on the use of CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) solar thin-films. Utilizing cross-industry enabling technologies, these systems are being developed to deliver low cost and high yield front end CIGS solar cell manufacturing methods coupled with customized backend solar module assembly and packaging systems.

This CIGS production technology is being designed as a turn-key solution to either enable upgrades to existing infrastructure or to establish new large scale solar manufacturing capacity for the production of CIGS solar cells that can be utilized in a multitude of applications. We plan to offer joint venture manufacturing opportunities for this technology to regional partners in a number of industry types and solar applications.

Contacts:

For more information please call 888-797-4527, or visit the company’s website at www.xsunx.com.

XsunX Media Relations: Christina Brozek, Beckerman Public Relations, cbrozek@beckermanpr.com, 201.465.8002

Safe Harbor Statement

Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “may,” “intend,” “expect” and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations of the Company and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with: the impact of economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, markets, product, and distributor performance, the impact on the national and local economies resulting from terrorist actions, and U.S. actions subsequently; and other factors detailed in reports filed by the Company.

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Macro Growth Drivers		Global PV Production (GW)
Political Support and Government Subsidies High Energy Prices Technical Progress and Cost Reductions Advantages over other Renewable Energy Sources: Negligible environmental impact Reliable, no delivery risk Maximum generation coincides with peak energy demand Distributed, point-of-use generation Thin Film PV will out perform the balance of the solar market.

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Our resident XsunX thin film CIGS technologists and manufacturing experts are working jointly with a leading producer of manufacturing equipment utilized in the hard disc market to create a unique process of coupling small area deposition (approximately 5X5 inch squares), material control, and material transport technologies from the disk drive industry for use in the production of thin film CIGS solar cells.

XsunX is providing specific, very special nuances and techniques on the best deposition and processing parameters of the CIGS thin film layers and backend solar module assembly techniques, which we believe are necessary to achieve low cost AND high conversion efficiency CIGS.  We are adapting sophisticated high rate production tools from the disk drive industry with process knowledge from the CIGS and thin film industry.  By maintaining a relatively small deposition area, we believe we reduce a significant challenge that has faced the CIGS industry in the past: maintaining cell performance while scaling production.  XsunX believes that this approach can potentially revolutionize the solar industry.

We are combining the expertise and years of technological improvements derived from the sophisticated hard disc drive manufacturing industry with XsunX staff experience in the thin film industry. Our staff experience includes nearly 15 years of thin film and CIGS experience in successful technology development, equipment design, and production of several million square feet of CIGS products in a commercial production setting.  Our Chief Technology Officer has worked side by side with leading researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) and  shares an R&D 100 award with NREL staff for efforts related to CIGS technology development.

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Current techniques for the production of CIGS thin films do not leverage stationary small area, high rate, production technologies that  allow for the precise control of thin film properties. Development and production of CIGS, and many other thin films, have focused on the use of large area substrates or continuous moving roll-to-roll deposition methods.

While CIGS holds the record for best thin film cell performance at nearly 20% in smaller area devices, scaling these laboratory results to large area devices has proved costly and difficult, resulting in significantly  lower product efficiencies. With proven laboratory results, we believe we can  use  small area substrates to provide  improved solar cell performance by statistically reducing process variation and defects to the solar cell that have occurred when manufacturing processes have been scaled to large areas in efforts to produce commercial quantities.

Interestingly, a number of manufacturers of CIGS today use large area or continuously moving roll-to- roll substrates in an effort to mass produce and then cut these large areas up into smaller wafer sized pieces for use in solar module assemblies. They sacrifice quality for quantity and the net results are products that deliver only fractions of the CIGS potential.

While starting and finishing with small area substrates may seem counter intuitive to the manufacturing economies-of-scale sought by developers of large area manufacturing systems, XsunX believes that the capability to directly transfer laboratory results and processes, or to improve and optimize processes in smaller areas, will allow commercial scale production to achieve or maintain improvements to the physical properties and efficiencies of the CIGS cell. US National Renewable Energy Laboratories routinely achieves 17% average efficiencies for CIGS with 19.9% peaks using a 4-inch substrate. Common sense dictates that if you already have a process in place that is delivering high efficiency results you should  focus on developing a way to put the process to work making millions of high performance solar cells per year per system.

Our revolutionary manufacturing method combines the higher cell efficiencies achieved through small area processing techniques with the high rate processing techniques developed within the hard disc media industry. We believe that through the successful combination of these techniques, overall factory yields (total watts of production per day) will be increased thereby resulting in lower production costs while still delivering the full energy and low cost potential that CIGS based devices can offer.

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We are  establishing a complete process that delivers proprietary new high rate, high efficiency, low cost front end thin film solar cell manufacturing systems coupled with customized backend solar module assembly and packaging systems to deliver low cost products based on CIGS solar thin films. Our  system will initially produce individual 125mm format (about 5” squares) wafers or cells, eventually scaling to 156mm and 215mm formats (about 6” and 8” squares), at per hour production rates we believe can  provide exceptional commercial opportunities. These wafers, on flexible stainless steel, are similar in size to silicon wafers used in nearly all solar modules manufactured today. System features and advantages include:

• Performance: System architecture is derived from proven hard disc drive deposition systems that account for the production of over 600 million disks per year – equivalent to nearly 3GWp per year if this output were solar cells
• Rapid Time to Market: Four  of the five  systems necessary to manufacture the CIGS solar cell require only minimal process adaptation while the fifth  system is leveraging the proven commercial stability of an existing high rate production tool that  is being modified to complete our process
• Factory Efficient and Flexible: Small system footprint allows for increased MW production per factory square foot. Modular 13MW cell production systems require as little as 2,500 sq. ft. and can be added in stages. A 100MW line could be installed in the same space required for a 25MW thin film amorphous silicon production line
• Multi-Industry Solution:  An elegant solution produces either just solar cells or complete solar modules offering  opportunities for manufacturers:
  • • Seeking to provide a low cost per watt drop in replacement for Poly-Si or c-Si silicon wafers to a large group of solar module assemblers
    • Of BIPV products that require the use of small flexible solar cells that can be adapted for use in a multitude of different shaped and sized solar BIPV products
    • Existing Semi-Conductor and Hard Disc Drive companies seeking ways to put idle floor space or systems to work in the green economy
    • Thin film solar module manufacturers looking to break the barriers to the production of large area, low cost, high efficiency thin film solar modules capable of delivering better value than silicon module solutions

• Low Per Watt Costs: XsunX has estimated that based on only 12% efficiency, far from the full potential of CIGS, the per watt factory production cost for solar modules could approach $.80 cents per watt.

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XsunX thin film CIGS technologists and manufacturing experts have begun working jointly with a leading producer of manufacturing equipment utilized in the hard disc market to create a unique and proprietary process of coupling small area deposition (approximately 5X5 inch squares), material control, and material transport technologies from the disk drive industry for use in the production of thin film CIGS solar cells.

Our development program plan includes establishing a Creative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL). We have begun the process of establishing the CRADA and have begun working with NREL to assist XsunX in validating the properties and suitability of each of the CIGS cell layers we are producing that are necessary for the production of high efficiency CIGS solar cells. In addition to commercialization assistance we will use NREL for third party validation of our integrated CIGS solar cell efficiencies and the quality and suitability of each of the individual CIGS device layers.

Development Efforts and Periodic Results

We have begun fine tuning process recipes and design work associated with the adaptation of manufacturing components necessary to produce the CIGS solar cell. While we can not share all aspects of our work we will make efforts to share progress over the balance of the 2009 year.

Backside Contact Layer	NREL Small Area CIGS Working Device Samples
Sample 125mm stainless steel substrate. This sample depicts the flexibility of the stainless steel wafer format and development the backside contact Chrome Molly process (First Layer below). This work is being done to demonstrate the adaptation of high rate deposition techniques utilizing HDD equipment.	We intend to initially scale similar small area deposition techniques utilized by NREL to create the high efficiency CIGS devices shown above to the 125mm format. Scaling initially to this wafer format will allow us to better control the deposition environments and statistically introduce fewer variables into the overall process while maintaining high efficiencie

CIGS Solar Device Cross Section

Eighth Layer: ITO Sputtered layer: Equipment Partner HDD System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System Seventh Layer: ZnO Sputtered layer: Equipment Partner HDD System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System Sixth Layer: CdS Aqueous layer: Commercially Available System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System Fifth Layer: CIGS Evaporation Layer: Proprietary Adaptation to HDD System Based on well defined evaporation processes combined with specific and direct XsunX staff experience designing and constructing commercial evaporation sources Fourth Layer: Moly Sputtered layer: Equipment Partner HDD System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System Third Layer: Chromium Sputtered layer: Equipment Partner HDD System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System Second Layer: Stainless Steel Substrate, Commercially Available First Layer: Backside Moly Sputtered layer: Equipment Partner HDD System Proprietary Processes Adaptation to HDD System

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Another area XsunX sees as offering tremendous opportunity today is the landmark passage of renewable energy support programs  in the USA and internationally. Governments are looking to underwrite and support technologies that offer the greatest opportunities to improve solar power conversion efficiencies, drive down costs  create new jobs, and breathe new opportunities back into existing industries.

XsunX believes that our unique approach to delivering the full potential of CIGS addresses these government and social goals for building a new green energy economy. We are presenting and qualifying our unique CIGS manufacturing method with various government programs best suited to helping to commercialize and spread this technology as rapidly as possible.

Government Sponsored Renewable Energy Links

The adoption of solar electric technologies has grown from a grass roots effort of environmentally conscious individuals in the 1970’s to a primary discussion by the worlds super powers on environmental safety issues and global renewable energy mandates at the recent G8 Summit held in July 2009.

The links below provide access to various data bases and information web sites providing both general and detailed information related to renewable energy government support programs in the USA.

Review of the proposed benefits of the solar legislation in the US TARP legislation
http://www.bakerlaw.com/energy-tax-alert-taking-stock-of-the-new-industrial-policy-on-energy-06-12-2009/

US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/

US House of Representatives passes landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) June 30, 2009
http://www.solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.3455

Comprehensive state by state list of Renewable Energy Support Programs
http://www.dsireusa.org/index.cfm?EE=0&RE=1

Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiencies
http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?State=US&ee=0&re=1

The State of California’s Incentives for Renewable Energy Support Programs
http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=0&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=CA

Links to Green Initiatives News Articles
http://www.govtech.com/gt/290183

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