Rayton Solar Inc's technology allows solar to be cost competitive with fossil fuels without the need for government subsidies. The conventional solar manufacturing process wastes an unnecessarily large amount of silicon. The industry standard is to cut a raw silicon ingot with a diamond wire, which wastes more than half of the silicon ingot. Additionally, wafers can not be cut thinner than 150-200 microns due to mechanical friction. Less than 4 microns is needed for the silicon to be a charge carrier so this extra material in conventional wafers is an unnecessary expense. By using a particle accelerator rather than a diamond wire, Rayton Solar can produce silicon wafers that are 4 microns thick.

Rayton Solar is the only company in the world that can produce 4 micron thick silicon without any waste. Thus, reducing the amount of silicon used per solar module by a factor of 50x-100x. This leads to an overall 60% reduction in manufacturing cost and a kWh price on par with the cheapest fossil fuels.