M. Guerra
Ubtainium LLC,
Keywords:
Ubtainium, LLC provides manufacturing systems, modeling and simulation software, and in-space manufacturing expertise to support industrial customers and collaborators in leveraging variable gravity and free-fall environments for producing superior quality semiconductor substrates, patterned thin film multi layers, coatings, and finished semiconductor chips—eliminating the need for traditional cleanroom fabrication facilities. Aluminum nitride (AlN) and diamond substrates, films, and AlN-on-diamond devices will be presented as reference cases to demonstrate the feasibility and provide a hypothesis for microgravity improvement. A brief non-dimensional analysis will be presented to justify the microgravity improvement hypothesis, demonstrate the robustness of the methodology to a variety of crystals, and obviate the influences of gravity. Lastly, a proprietary pricing maturity chart based on historic market data for the most successful and next generation semiconductors will be presented to demonstrate Ubtainium’s unique method for commercialization trajectory planning.