PurposeSpecialized fabrication opens up new vistas for ultra light design.ObjectiveThe objective for ULSF fabrication is precision, reproducibility, automation, and ultra light "garage" style budgets.We should be able to produce cubic carbon (diamond) and a variety of carbon and silicon materials for integrated products. For example, if we could produce solar cells (a silicon material) we would be able to integrate solar and RF array cells into the exterior skin of a space craft with arbitrary freedom. In this case, space craft design would be less constrained by solar panel requirements. Ideally, we will be able to integrate semiconductor components for complete logic and processing systems as well. This capability would pay huge design and product dividends. Heat management could be manipulated arbitrarily. Buses could be routed arbitrarily. And, processing could be tailored quite specifically for serial and parallel, hard and soft functions. DevelopmentA first approach is ion deposition. This approach promises to satisfy all objectives while creating the problem of advance or build rate.
The need for sensing products implies a need for Electron Microscopy. The greater the resolving power of the visual sensor, the faster our observation of the results of a parameter change.
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