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Manufacturing in Space

Introduction

2 Silicon Semiconductor Fabrication

  1. Fabrication on Earth
  2. Fabrication in Space

3 Gallium Arsenide vs. Silicon

  1. Comparisons and contrasts
  2. Relevant markets
  3. Growing Silicon or Gallium Arsenide in Space

4 Location of manufacturing facility

  1. Moon
  2. Low Earth Orbit

5 The Space Station -Hosted or Independent

  1. The Mir Space Station
  2. The International Space Station

The Design of the Manufacturing Facility

  1. The human component
  2. The manufacturing platform
  3. The manufacturing equipment

1 Feasibility Study

  1. Economics of manufacturing in space
  2. Start-up cost/launch cost
  3. Ongoing cost
  4. Is it feasible?

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Bibliography

Special Thanks to Glenn Chapman for the great amount of knowledge and time he put into helping us with this project.

El-Kareh, Badih. Fundamentals of Semiconductor Processing Technologies. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, Massachusetts, 1995.

Morgan, D.V. and K. Board. An Introduction to Semiconductor Microtechnology, 2nd ed. John Wiley: Toronto, 1990.

http://rel.harris.semi.com/docs/lexicon

Mir Data

http://titania.osf.hq.nasa.gov/mir/mirsum.html

http://www.sciam.com/WEB/0696issue/0696trends.html

http://www.iki.rssi.ru/

Nasa Database search
http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/html/search.html

http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/html/xref/sample.html

Stine, G. Harry, The Third Industrial Revolution, ACE Books by arrangement with G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,1979.

Meinel, Aden B. and Meinel Marjorie P., Applied Solar Energy, An Introduction, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1976.

Sharma, Dev, lecture notes in Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

http://www.svec.uh.edu/wsf2-results.html
http://zeta.lerc.nasa.gov/expr/gaas.html
http://issa-www.jsc.nasa.gov/
http://issa-www.jsc.nasa.gov/

The Soviet Manned Space Program, by Phillip Clark, published by Orion Books. Copyright 1988

http://www.nb.rockwell.com/mcd/backgrounder/wafer.html http://www.herring.com/mag/issue23/transition.html

Elliot, David J. Integrated Circuit Fabrication Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Ruska, W. Scott. Microelectronic Processing: An Introduction to the Manufacture of Integrated Circuits. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.

Microfabrication Laboratory Equipment Manual

http://argon.eecs.berkeley.edu:8080/text/equipment.manual.html

Integrated Circuits Laboratory

http://www-mtl.mit.edu/MTL/ICL.html