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Since joining NanoGram in 2005, Dr. Hieslmair has designed and overseen NanoGram’s silicon solar cell manufacturing effort. Dr. Hieslmair earned his MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for laser processing of silicon and ceramics, after which he began his solar cell career at what was then Siemens Solar Industries in Camarillo, CA. A short later, he pursued and received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under Professor Eicke Weber where he focused on properties, processing and defects in various silicon materials for solar cells. In 1999, he began work at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories specializing in developing synchrotron characterization techniques for silicon solar cell materials. In 2001, Dr. Hieslmair detoured from solar cells and joined a start-up, Calimetrics, developing a high capacity DVD product and he oversaw the transfer of this new technology to a DVD mass manufacturing plant with the capability of producing more than 1 million DVDs per day. Mass manufacturing on such a scale was in sharp contrast to typical solar cell plants of the 1990s and left a major impression on him. Dr. Hieslmair holds two patents and is author and co-author of more than 50 technical works. | 