HelioVolt's breakthrough manufacturing technology, FASST™ can produce thin film semiconductor coatings on traditional construction materials using CIS - a proven copper-based semiconductor alloy that is superior to all ofher thin films. CIS is as efficient and reliable as crystalline silicon - and can displace silicon and accelerate market growth, especially for architectural solar power applications.

NREL estimates that it will take high efficiency devices with manufacturing costs of $1 per watt or less to make PV power competitive the price of electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. HelioVolt believes that with FASST™ the photovoltaic market can reach that stage much sooner that with silicon.