Sencera

Sencera specializes in development, funding and commercialization of high-technology content products. Past projects include hardware for renewable energy manufacturing (thin-film PV equipment development), efficient heat engines, and chemical waste stream recovery. New Development areas of interest include:  renewable energy water purification and desalination new methods for food production waste stream treatment novel construction techniques  Sencera was founded in 2003 by Rusty Jewett, Ph.D. Dr. Jewett has 25 years of experience developing semiconductor manufacturing tools and other hardware. He has worked both in publicly supported research at Sandia National Laboratories, and in the private sector with Lam Research, Litmas, Advanced Energy Industries, Sunpower and Sencera. He has worked on a variety of different plasma source and diagnostic techniques, resulting in several papers and more than 10 issued US patents (to date). A proven technical and business leader, he has served as CEO since 1998 at each of Litmas, Sunpower, Inc. and Sencera.