Gunter Ziegenbalg

Signet Solar, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures silicon Photovoltaic (PV) modules. Its technology is targeted for applications in solar farms, commercial installations, building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and remote habitation. The company was co-founded by Prabhu Goel, Rajeeva Lahri & B. B. Patel in September, 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG Provides sensing and digital power semiconductor solutions. It provides services for automotive, industrial, medical, mobile sensing, information technology and consumer applications. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

SoloPower Systems, Inc. manufactures and commercializes thin-film photovoltaic cells and modules. The firm’s proprietary electrochemical process for CIGS solar cell formation is differentiated from Si-based PV and alternate thin film PV technologies. Its products include SP1, SP3L and SP3S. The company was founded by Bulent M. Basol and Homayoun Talieh in 2005 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Moncada Energy Group SRL produces electricity through wind mills. The firm operates wind and biomass factories. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Rovereto, Italy.

SVTC Technologies LLC provided its novel-silicon development customers access to two state-of-the-art, IP-secure development fabs- in San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas - with a full complement of 200 mm (8-inch) and 300 mm (12-inch) advanced CMOS and MEMS fabrication equipment, designed to speed the development of best-of-class solutions. SVTC supports its fab access by offering development tools, sophisticated analytics capabilities and commercialization services as needed, so customers can more rapidly translate their innovative silicon concepts into reality.

ZMD America LLC provides electronic parts. It supplies mixed signal application circuits and other semiconductors. The firm provides memory, sensor compensators, and local interconnect network. The company was founded by Guntur Ziegenbalg in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.