Electronic Systems and Components

Silicon Genesis Corporation

Brief Description

Silicon Genesis Corporation, doing business as SiGen, develops substrate technology, processes, and equipment for semiconductor, solar, display, and optoelectronics markets worldwide. The company provides silicon-on-insulators (SOIs), strained-silicon products, and other engineered multi-layer structures for microelectronic and photonics industries for advanced electronic and optoelectronic device applications. Its products include Stand-Alone Plasma-Activation Tool, a small footprint tool that provides a reactive surface to bond silicon wafers and heterogeneous...

Aguru Images, Inc.

Brief Description

Aguru Images, Inc. develops and markets image capture devices. It provides Dome, a spherical imaging device that is used for capturing the shape and reflectance properties of the human face to create computer generated digital doubles; Scope, a compact device that captures reflectance data for materials; and Scanner, which creates various photographs of an object moving lights across the image. The company's products are used in visual effects, animation, films, games, and multimedia and design industries. Aguru Images, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Rockville,...

Serinus Labs

Brief Description Serinus Labs is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors. Enabled by cutting-edge nanotechnology, Serinus Labs specializes in providing custom solutions for existing and emerging gas sensor markets such as in industrial health and safety, automotive, consumer electronics and healthcare. Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors Ali Javey

OnWafer Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description As of January 16, 2007, OnWafer Technologies, Inc. was acquired by KLA-Tencor Corporation. OnWafer Technologies, Inc. manufactures lithography and plasma etch products to the semiconductor industry. The company's products include Baketemp, which allows temperature monitoring of resist track bake plates; Onview data analysis system, a process viewing system; Bakeinfo analysis engine, which tracks the thermal profile of various plates for viewing and identifying excursion events; Autocal, a software application; AutoCD, which pushes the servo point forward; and SmartFOUP that...

Onix Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

OniX Microsystems, Inc. was engaged in the design, development, and supply of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based all-optical switching engines for telecommunications equipment suppliers. Its products covered optical switching needs, including network protection and provisioning, optical add/drop multiplexing, and optical cross connects. OniX offered MEMS design and photonic packaging services.

Timeline 1998. Company founded. Inventors

Behrang Behin, Kam Yin Lau, Richard Muller

OneD Battery Sciences

Brief Description

In 2013, the company acquired nanowire technologies and Palo Alto R&D activities from Nanosys.

Today, OneD Battery Sciences operates a SiNANODE® pilot production to support the development of advanced electrochemical cells and the initial production of its technology licensees.

OneD Baterry Sciences CTO Dr. Yimin Zhu leads a team that continues to improve the SiNANODE® technology and supports customers producing advanced energy storage solutions for various markets.

OneD Battery Science engages with leading material suppliers, battery makers, and...

Alien Technology

Brief Description

Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies, and products. The company has offices in the US, China, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Australia and other parts of Asia, supplying customers worldwid with UHF passive EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6c compliant RFID transceiver chips transceiver chips, tags, inlays and labels, fixed and mobile readers, and related professional services for item tagging, retail/apparel, transportation, life sciences, and many...

Ekso Bionics

Brief Description

Since 2005, Ekso Bionics has used exoskeleton technology to enhance natural abilities and improve quality of life. The exoskeleton industry leader, offering technologies that help those with paralysis to stand up and walk, enhancing worker capabilities globally, and providing research for the advancement of R&D projects intended to benefit U.S. defense capabilities.

Formerly known as Berkeley Bionics and Berkeley Exotech.

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2014. The company acquired PN Med Group Inc. through a reverse merger,...

CNNSuperChip, Inc.

Brief Description

CNNSuperChip was founded to commercialize a supercomputer on a chip, called a cellular neural network, with a parallel analong array processor architecture similar to the retina.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Grafty, Inc.

Brief Description

Grafty is a Berkeley-originated computer vision startup bringing face detection, tracking, recognition and biometrics solution to mobile platforms to bolster consumer, healthcare, and security industries. Built on extensive experience, Grafty plan to democratize computer vision and make it more accessible by inventing a state-of-the-art computer vision platform that is super simple to use for research and can operate at scale in real-time industrial applications.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Allen Yang,...