Stealth Solar Startup Senergen shuts down

Senergen Devices, based out of Fremont, CA received more than $5 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners around November of 2007.

“Senergen Devices is a solar cell manufacturing company that plans to produce solar cells made from traditional silicon materials at very low costs. Senergen does not use silicon wafers as the solar cell substrate. Instead, it uses silicon in other forms to deposit the films on less expensive, readily available substrates. Senergen has demonstrated it can bypass the expensive polysilicon manufacturing process by taking silicon tetrachloride and depositing it on various substrates using a high temperature plasma beam.”

Source: VantagePoint Ventures