Sinton Instruments, originally established in 1992 by Ron Sinton as Sinton Consulting, is dedicated to developing and applying new tools and analysis to R&D and manufacturing in silicon solar cells and integrated circuits. The company's core focus is on providing physically-rigorous, simple, and cost-effective measurement tools and analysis to solve practical problems in R&D and manufacturing process control. Sinton Instruments has become the de facto lifetime-measurement standard in laboratories worldwide, with over 600 minority-lifetime measurement instruments in use globally. Through collaborations with universities and industries, the company maintains expertise in silicon device physics, test and measurement, silicon materials, and device processing to design instrumentation and analysis software for various applications.