Deep Domain Expertise Across Critical Technology Sectors

Clean Energy & Solar

Deep hands-on experience across the full solar value chain: silicon feedstock, wafer and cell manufacturing, module assembly, and state and federal incentive programs. Solar supply chain expertise from polysilicon through modules, equipment design, troubleshooting, and optimization. Understands the equipment, process, and yield challenges that separate a pilot line from a profitable factory.

• Silicon supply chain development and scale-up: polysilicon, ingots, bricks, wafers, crucibles, graphite, CZ pullers, full cell and module production line scale-up assistance
• Manufacturing scale-up and yield improvement
• Equipment specification, procurement, and commissioning
• Incorporation of AI tools into process optimization and product characterization methods and systems
• Strategy guidance up to full proposal writing and submission
• From polysilicon to ingots to wafers to cells to modules, we can help with technology challenges or scale-up challenges.

Semiconductors & Electronics

PhD-level expertise in semiconductor substrates, crystal growth, and advanced materials. Experience spanning compound semiconductors, wide-bandgap materials, and the manufacturing infrastructure required to bring novel materials into production.

• From silicon to germanium to GaN and beyond, material properties and production methods
• Crystal growth process development and scale-up
• Wafer processing and substrate qualification
• Equipment and controls for high-purity manufacturing environments
• Technical due diligence for semiconductor IP and process claims

Space & Defense

Experience with high-reliability materials and components for space and defense applications, including radiation hardness, solar for satellites, and novel materials processing techniques, and the supply chain and qualification requirements that govern these markets.

• High-reliability substrate and materials qualification
• Radiation hardness and solar for satellites
• Novel materials processing techniques
• ITAR-compliant manufacturing and process documentation
• DoD and NASA funding strategy (SBIR/STTR, OTA)
• Technical due diligence for dual-use technology investments

Advanced Materials & Crystals

Foundational expertise in advanced materials science — crystal growth, substrate engineering, and the commercialization of novel materials. Understands the gap between a promising material and a manufacturable product, and how to close it.

• Single-crystal and polycrystalline growth processes
• Graphite, carbon, and specialty substrate manufacturing
• Materials characterization and quality systems
• Scale-up from lab to pilot to production
• IP strategy and licensing for novel materials

Photonics & Sensing

Experience with scintillation and optical crystal growth and characterization, and AI incorporation into manufacturing and characterization processes, across commercial and defense applications. Understands the materials, fabrication, and integration challenges that define performance in this sector.

• Scintillation and optical crystal growth and characterization
• Optical substrate and coating process development
• AI incorporation into manufacturing and characterization processes
• Commercial and defense sensing system scale-up
• Technical due diligence for photonics IP and process claims

Energy Storage

Hands-on experience with bulk and thin film materials deposition and characterization. Understands the scale-up challenges that determine whether a promising chemistry becomes a viable product.

• Electrode coating materials, formation and testing
• Hands-on experience with bulk and thin film materials deposition and characterization
• Equipment specification and factory layout
• DOE funding strategy
• Technical due diligence for battery technology investments