Advanced Materials

SC Solutions provides real-time control and intelligent processing of advanced materials. A key to our enabling technology is our physics-based modeling of systems and processes, which allows us to accurately predict system behavior due to configuration or component modifications. The resulting models are also suitable for use in feedback control design, and subsequent development of embedded controllers. Our experience includes:

• Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) thin film deposition using RF diode sputtering
• High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) thin film deposition using electron beam deposition
• Molecular Beam Epitaxy for III-V Thin Film Growth
• Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) of HTS thin films
• Structural Ceramics (Gelcast) manufacturing
• Diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

A Selection of Projects

• Control for Multiple-Source Electron Beam Deposition of Superconducting Thin Films
• Modeling and Control of MOCVD of Ferroelectric Thin Films
• Modeling and Simulation for the Accelerated Development of Materials
• Reactor-scale Modeling of MOCVD of High-Temperature Superconductors

A Selection of Publications

• An All-Digital Cantilever Controller for MRFM and Scanned Probe Microscopy using a Combined DSP/FPGA Design
• A Physical Model for Drying of Gelcast Ceramics
• Control of Sputter Process for Improved Run-to-run Repeatability
• Model-based control for chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP)
• Modeling and Control of Distributed Thermal Systems
• Multiscale Modeling and Control of RF Diode Sputter Deposition for GMR Thin Films
• Multi-Scale Model of the RF Diode Sputter Deposition of GMR Thin Films
• Reactor-scale Modeling and Control for MOCVD of YBCO High Temperature Superconductors
• Reactor-Scale Models for RF Diode Sputtering of Metal Thin-Films
• Real-Time Model-Based Control Systems Design for Gelcast Drying Process