Space Enabled Advanced Devices and Semiconductors (SEADS)

Current manufacturing methods usually require costly facilities, hundreds of masks, and complex process flow such as lithography, etching, deposition, and thin film growth. Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing technology is a promising alternative process providing a non-contact (defect reduction), direct printing (mask-less) method, and etching-free process for semiconductor electronic manufacture. The microgravity (µG) environment provides the beneficial effects in EHD printing technology (from ink preparation and manufacturing to applications and product stages) that can provide better trench filling conformity, and less voiding defects for advanced sub-µm semiconductor manufacturing in a zero-gravity environment.