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  Southwall Technologies Inc.
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03/25/03
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 3  INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
   Jaffe, Bruce M.
   1029 Corporation Way
   P.O. Box 10052

   Palo Alto, CA  94303
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
   3/25/2003
3. I.R.S. Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an entity (Voluntary)

4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
   Southwall Technologies Inc. (SWTX)
5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable)
   [X] Director                   [ ] 10% Owner
   [ ] Officer (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below)

6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
   [X] Form filed by One Reporting Person
   [ ] Form filed by More than One Reporting Person



Table I   Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
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1)Title of Security                                          2)Amount of         3)  4)Nature of
                                                             Securities          D   Indirect
                                                             Beneficially        or  Beneficial
                                                             Owned               I   Ownership
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Table II   Derivative Securitites Beneficially Owned
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1)Title of Derivative Security  2)Date Exercisable  3)Title and Amount of                   4)Conver-  5)Ownership 6)Nature of
                                and Expiration Date Securities Underlying                   sion or    Form of     Indirect
                                (Month/Day/Year)    Derivative Security                     exercise   Derivative  Beneficial
                                                                                            price of   Security    Ownership
                                Date      Expira-                                Amount or  Deri-      Direct(D)
                                Exer-     tion                                   Number of  vative     or
                                cisable   Date      Title                        Shares     Security   Indirect(I)
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Explanation of Responses:




SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON
/S/ By: John Lipscomb
    For: Bruce M. Jaffe
DATE 03/27/03

EX-99.16 PWR OF ATTY

	POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby
	constitutes and appoints Thomas G. Hood, Michael E.
	Seifert and John Lipscomb, his true and lawful
	attorneys-in-fact to:

	(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned
	Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of
	the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
	thereunder;

	(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on
	behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or
	desirable to complete the execution of any such Form
	3, 4 and 5 and timely filing of such forms with the
	United States Securities and Exchange Commission and
	any other authority; and

	(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever
	in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion
	of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
	best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned,
	it being understood that the documents executed by such
	attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant
	to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
	contain such terms and conditions as such attorneys-in-fact
	may approve in their discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact,
	individually, full power and authority to do and perform
	all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary
	and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
	and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
	purposes as each attorney-in-fact might or could do if
	personally present, with full power of substitution or
	revocation,hereby ratifying and confirming that each
	attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes,
	shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
	power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
	The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-
	in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
	undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's
	responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
	Exchange Act of 1934.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
	Attorney to be executed as of this ___ day of _________, 2002.


	______________________________
	Signature:


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