A Start-Up: Adventures in Bandgap Engineering

I have been involved in the looking at the industrial applications of semiconductors since graduate school and since my first start-up company in 2000 and at my present start-up QuantTera, the term bandgap engineering relates to both the technology development as well as my business ups and downs. I will start off describing my entrepreneurial experience and contrast my two companies and how the times have changed, and then move onto the development of heterojunction devices. I believe there is a mind set that is necessary for future aspiring scientists to jump into an entrepreneurial endeavor, and I have some "Rules" or "Lessons" for such a journey. One of the greatest assets of physicists is their problem solving ability and the resulting cleverness to solve both business problems just as one solves the technical ones. In actuality the science part is the joy of the start-up and the "other" stuff will make you pull your hair out!