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Cool, but I'd hesitate to start calling it a "printed circuit" just yet. The print is acting as more of an automatic sottering iron.
by genericdave 14y ago
Cool, but I'd hesitate to start calling it a "printed circuit" just yet. The print is acting as more of an automatic sottering iron.
- ajross 14y agoIt's a printed circuit board. No one (sane) is talking about DIY fabbing of semiconductors.
- ktizo 14y agoSanity is relative. One of the goals is a solar cell production plant design that MetalicaRap will be able to print, that will utilize MetalicaRap's vacuum chamber and beam for the solar cell manufacturing processes. For a typical family home electrical system we may bring the solar cell cost down from 10,000 euro to 400 euro by self printing. (solar cell installation, inverter, and other costs would obviously be on top of this price). It should be possible to use a process that creates thin film solar cells at a vacuum of 10-4 Torr by directly co-evaporating copper, gallium, indium and selenium onto a heated substrate[3]. Other precursor choices should also be possible[4]. The CIGS manufacturing process will consist of electron beam physical vapor deposition[5] (EBPVD summary by material [6]) and DC sputtering in the vacuum chamber(DC sputter animation [7]). http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap
- unimpressive 14y ago>No one (sane) is talking about DIY fabbing of semiconductors. But I can dream, right?
- kanzure 14y ago> No one (sane) is talking about DIY fabbing of semiconductors. Sure we are.. http://code.google.com/p/homecmos http://code.google.com/p/homecmos and irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap says hi.