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Xunlight Featured as One of America’s Most Promising Startups

Xunming Deng and Liwei Xu left Nanchang, China, 25 years ago to begin graduate studies at the University of Chicago—Deng in physics and Xu, his wife, in chemistry. What they've accomplished since receiving their PhDs may be more exceptional: They've established a green-energy company in Toledo, Ohio, in the middle of America's struggling automotive manufacturing belt.
Toledo Tries to Overcome Rust-Belt Image

The glass is half full again in Toledo. The Ohio city once known as the glass-making capital of America is trying to forge a new identity as a solar energy, green jobs metropolis of the future.
Xunlight Featured on ABC World News

Once the glass-making capital of the country, most of the city’s output over the years has gone into making everything from windshields to windows for cars and buildings.
New York Times: A Splash of Green

Like his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines.
Toledo Finds the Energy to Reinvent

This city became famous in the last century for being one of North America’s leading glass centers

Xunlight’s amorphous silicon thin-film solar modules are based on the company’s patented technology and can be used for a wide variety of applications. These flexible and lightweight products are highly valued in the marketplace for the following reasons described in detail below:

Flexible

Xunlight’s modules are produced utilizing a thin stainless steel substrate and flexible lamination polymers which equates to a thickness of ~1.2 mm. This allows for our modules to be used for a wide variety of applications.

Lightweight

Xunlight’s products (~.7 lbs/sq. ft) are roughly three times lighter than rigid glass based PV modules, which means they can easily be installed on rooftops that may not be able to take the weight of glass modules without costly structural support.

High Performance

Xunlight’s amorphous silicon based PV modules offer better power performance in actual outdoor conditions vs. some other solar technologies that currently dominate the market.

Durable

The company’s modules are flexible and lightweight and do not utilize glass which make them very durable and resilient to most weather conditions.

Easy to Install

Our products can be integrated into a building’s roofing membrane or rolled on and adhered which allows for easy installation and also eliminates the need for roof penetrating racking structures.

Below is a comparison of a typical thin-film CdTe glass panel (~5 to ~6.8 mm thick) and Xunlight’s flexible, thin-film silicon module on stainless steel (~1 mm total thickness).

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