Company Profile
JX Crystals is a spin-off from the Boeing Company with licenses for
key patents on IR sensitive Gallium Antimonide photovoltaic cells. JXC broadened the
usefulness of GaSb cells to include not only efficiency boosting aerospace solar cells but
also Thermo PV cells and TPV Combined Heat and Power systems. JXC has established a strong
patent position in TPV technology and is currently seeking investors and strategic
partners to develop a 1.5 KWe residential
home cogeneration system that can supply heat, hot water and electricity from natural gas
or propane.
JXC has an international patent position on a novel, low cost
Solar PV module design and has started manufacturing product in China for 500 kW
projects there in 2006 and then for the Global Market. The design is a low concentration 3
Sun approach that replaces 2/3 of the expensive crystalline solar cells in a module with
low cost metal mirrors. JXC sees this effort as a first evolutionary step toward the
ultimate goal of high efficiency and high concentration for utility scale PV power
generation.
JXC is also doing R&D on 40% efficiency solar cells and systems,
including a new cassegrainian concentrator concept with distinct advantages for 4 junction
PV stacks. High concentration and efficiency go hand-in-hand toward full scale utility
power generation that will be cost competitive with fossil fuels. |