
232 The Story of SunPower
state-of-the-art laboratories capable of making silicon transistors
and integrated circuits. It was the perfect venue, indeed perhaps the
only venue, to continue developing TPV.
I settled in as a professor and began to meet the global
community of people working in PV. This included Profs. Roger
Van Overstraeten of the University of Leuven in Belgium and Adolf
Goetzberger, founder of the Institute for Solar Energy in Freiburg
Germany. Both spent sabbaticals working in my lab at Stanford.
I also developed a close relationship with Prof. Antonio Luque at
the Polytechnical University of Madrid. The PV community was an
amazing group ...