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Topic Matter Consultants (SMEs) in semiconductor and in-space manufacturing collaborated on a white paper that outlines how microgravity advantages the manufacturing of semiconductors and associated supplies. Earth’s gravitational forces pose substantial boundaries to fast, high-yield semiconductor manufacturing. Microgravity gives a path to beat these boundaries. There are additionally substantial sensible advantages to incorporating LEO-based manufacturing into the provision chain. The white paper argues that transitioning this business into area is a path ahead to attaining NASA’s In Area Manufacturing Purposes’ (InSPA) targets. These targets embrace strengthening U.S. technological management, enhancing nationwide safety, creating high-quality jobs, offering advantages to humanity, and enabling the event of a sturdy economic system in LEO.

The paper, “Semiconductor Manufacturing in Low Earth Orbit for Terrestrial Use,” may be discovered right here.

Extra info on NASA’s InSPA portfolio may be discovered at:

www.nasa.gov/inspa

Courtesy of NASA

Featured Picture: NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur works within the Microgravity Science Glovebox swapping samples for an experiment known as Solidification Utilizing a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules, or SUBSA. The physics investigation explores experimental strategies of crystallizing melts in microgravity and is predicted to lead to diminished fluid movement within the soften, main to higher distribution of subcomponents and the potential for improved know-how utilized in producing semiconductor crystals.