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This is pretty old, a holdover from the glass substrate days. Needs updating.
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Silicon is the construction material of choice - the solar cell is made of silicon, and the processors and memory are also. Here are some relevant properties of silicon, !SiO2 glass, gallium arsenide, copper, aluminum, silver, gold, tantalum, indium tin oxide, kovar, and invar, which will make up 99.9% of the weight of a server-sat: Here are some relevant properties of silicon, !SiO2 glass, gallium arsenide, copper, aluminum, silver, gold, tantalum, indium tin oxide, kovar, invar, low expansion borosilicate glass, indium phosphide, and pyrolytic carbon, which will make up 99.9% of the weight of a thinsat:
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|| property                || Si || !SiO2 || !Si3N4 || !GaAs || Cu || Al || Ag || Au || Ta || ITO || Kovar || Invar ||
|| Density g/cm^3                 || 2.33 || 2.65 || 3.20 || 5.32 || 8.96 || 2.7 || 10.5 || 19.3 || 16.7 || 6.43|| 7.85  || 8.05 ||
|| Coefficient of Thermal  Expansion 10-6/K          || 2.6 || 0.5 || 3.2 || 5.7 || 16.5 || 23.1 || 18.9 || 14.2 || 6.3 || 10? || 5.3  || 1.3 ||
|| Heat Capacity J/g-K                || 0.71 || 0.74 || 0.71 || 0.33 || 0.38 || 0.90 || 0.24 || 0.13 || 0.14 ||  - || 0.44 || 0.51 ||
|| ''Heat Capacity MJ/m^3^-K''                || 1.65 || 1.96 || 2.27 || 1.76 || 3.40 || 2.43 || 2.47 || 2.49 || 2.34 ||  - || 3.45 || 4.11 ||
|| Thermal Conductivity W/m-K                || 149 || 1 || 30 || 55 || 401 || 237 || 430 || 320 ||  58 || - || 17.3 || 10.1 ||
|| ''density normalized thermal conductivity''      || 64 || 0.4 || 9.4 || 10 || 45 || 88 || 41 || 16 || 3.5 ||  - || 2.5 || 12 ||
|| ''Thermal Diffusivity mm^2^/s''                || 90 || 0.5 || 13 || 31 || 118 || 98 || 174 || 129 || 25 ||  - || 5 || 2.5 ||
|| Youngs Modulus GPa                || 150 || 73 || 260 || 86 || 110 || 70 || 83 || 78 || 186 || 116 || 140 || 148 ||
|| ''speed of sound km/s''                || 8.0 || 5.2 || 9.0 || 4.0 || 3.5 || 5.1 || 2.8 || 2.0 || 3.3 ||  4.2 || 4.2 || 4.3 ||
|| Tensile Strength MPa                || 7000 || 50 || 70 || 57 || 210 || 40 || 170 || 100 || 200 || 120 || 270 || 680 ||
|| ''Atomic Weight (avg/atom)''                || 28 || 20 || 20 || 72 || 64 || 27 || 108 || 197 || 181 || 57  || 57 || 56 ||
|| Resistivity nano-ohm-m                || - || - || - || - || 17 || 27 || 16 || 22 || 131 || 2200 || 490 || 820 ||
|| Dielectric Constant                || 11.8 || 3.9 || 7.5 || 12.9 || - || - || - || - || - ||  - || - || - ||
Data mostly from wikipedia and various places online. See also [[ http://www.matweb.com | Matweb]] the material properties website, [[http://www.ece.byu.edu/cleanroom/CTE_materials.phtml | B.Y.U. CTE table ]]. Tensile strength untrustworthy, and many parameters are anisotropic. Use only for rough estimates.
|| property || Si || !SiO2 || !Si3N4 || !GaAs || Cu || Al || Ag || Au || Ta || ITO || Kovar|| Invar|| BSiO2 || InP || PyroC||
|| Density g/cm^3^ || 2.33 || 2.65 || 3.20 || 5.32 || 8.96 || 2.7 || 10.5 || 19.3 || 16.7 || 6.43|| 7.85 || 8.05 || 2.23 || 4.81 || 2.25 ||
|| Coeff. of Thermal Expansion 10-6/K || 2.6 || 0.5 || 3.2 || 5.7 || 16.5 || 23.1 || 18.9 || 14.2 || 6.3 || 10? || 5.3 || 1.3 || 3.25 || 4.6 || 4.3 ||
|| Heat Capacity J/g-K || 0.71 || 0.74 || 0.71 || 0.33 || 0.38 || 0.90 || 0.24 || 0.13 || 0.14 || - || 0.44 || 0.51 || 0.75 || 0.31 || 0.72 ||
|| ''Heat Capacity MJ/m^3^-K'' || 1.65 || 1.96 || 2.27 || 1.76 || 3.40 || 2.43 || 2.47 || 2.49 || 2.34 || - || 3.45 || 4.11 || 1.67 || 1.50 || 1.62 ||
|| Thermal Conductivity W/m-K || 149 || 1 || 30 || 55 || 401 || 237 || 430 || 320 || 58 || - || 17.3 || 10.1 || 1.1 || 68 || 1950 ||
|| ''Specific thermal conductivity'' || 64 || 0.4 || 9.4 || 10 || 45 || 88 || 41 || 16 || 3.5 || - || 2.5 || 12 || 0.7 || 14.1 || 870 ||
|| ''Thermal Diffusivity mm^2^/s'' || 90  || 0.5 || 13 || 31 || 118 || 98 || 174 || 129 || 25 || - || 5 || 2.5 || 0.3 || 45.3 || 1200 ||
|| Youngs Modulus GPa || 150 || 73 || 260 || 86 || 110 || 70 || 83 || 78 || 186 || 116 || 140 || 148 || 63 || 61 || 4.8 ||
|| ''speed of sound km/s'' || 8.0 || 5.2 || 9.0 || 4.0 || 3.5 || 5.1 || 2.8 || 2.0 || 3.3 || 4.2 || 4.2 || 4.3 || 5.3 || 3.6 || 1.5 ||
|| ''elastic impedance Kg/mm^2^-s'' || 18.7 || 13.9 || 28.8 || 21.4 || 31.4 || 13.7 || 29.5 || 38.8 || 55.7 || 27.3|| 33.2 || 34.5 || 11.9 || 17.1 || 3
.3 ||
|| Tensile Strength MPa || 7000 || 50 || 70 || 57 || 210 || 40 || 170 || 100 || 200 || 120 || 270 || 680 || 35 || - || - ||
|| ''Atomic Weight (avg/atom)'' || 28 || 20 || 20 || 72 || 64 || 27 || 108 || 197 || 181 || 57 || 57 || 56 || 19 || 73 || 6 ||
|| Resistivity nano-ohm-m || - || - || - || - || 17 || 27 || 16 || 22 || 131 || 2200|| 490 || 820 || - || - ||14000||
|| Dielectric Constant || 11.8 || 3.9 || 7.5 || 12.9 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 4.6 || 12.5 || - ||
Data mostly from wikipedia and various places online. See also [[ http://www.matweb.com | Matweb]] the material properties website, [[http://www.ece.byu.edu/cleanroom/CTE_materials.phtml | B.Y.U. CTE table ]].
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The vast bulk of the material , and the largest pieces of of the server-sat, will be silicon. Since the server-sat undergoes wide temperature changes when it passes in and out of shadow, or undegoes thermal annealing, it will be more survivable if the non-silicon portions are made of composite materials that match silicon's 2.6E-6/Kelvin coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). For example, Zicar Ceramics SALI-2 (search on Matweb]] is a mixture of 80% alumina, 20% silica with a a CTE of 6.2E-6 . Combined in different proportions with silica ( !SiO2 ) , it might be nicely matched to silicon. Tensile strength untrustworthy, and many parameters are anisotropic. Silicon often has small crystallographically aligned and very sharp surface pits (intentionally on solar cells) that can cause 33x stress concentrations, nucleating cracks and causing fractures at 300MPa instead of the bulk 7000MPa. Use these tensile strengths only for rough estimates.
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Server sats will also need transparent materials and conductors that closely match silicon. The metals have very high CTEs, while !Si02 has a very low CTE, so slotted metal wires with !SiO2 in the gaps is one way to make a "material" that is both conductive and has the same CTE as silicon. The vast bulk of the material , and the largest pieces of of the thinsat, will be laminated engineering glass and metal. Since the thinsat undergoes wide temperature changes when it passes in and out of shadow, or undegoes thermal annealing, it will be more survivable if the glass can match silicon's 2.6E-6/Kelvin coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). Metals have very high CTEs, while !SiO2 has a very low CTE, so slotted metal wires with !SiO2 in the gaps is one way to make a "material" that is both conductive and has the same CTE as silicon.
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'''Curling''' can occur if the front and back sides of a server-sat (especially the solar cell) have different CTEs, and the server-sat undergoes repeated thermal cyclings. There is nothing inherent in a server-sat that establishes "flat" - it will flex until tensions and compressions are minimized. A slightly curved server-sat is not a severe operational problem. If the edges are turned up a few degrees, that will reduce collected solar energy very little. The main problem is the effect on the phasing of the radios. Significant curling will change the spacing of the radios at opposite sides of the curl, and lift them above the plane of the radios at the center of the curl. Without some means of determining precisely how much curl is there, the radios may be in incorrect phases. '''Stack compression during launch''' Booster systems vibrate during launch. If there are regions of higher and lower compressibility and mass density, there will be standing waves and resonances in a stack of thinsats. Ideally, the design would match the mechanical properties of all the materials used, but that is unlikely given other constraints. So the stacks may need to be resonance isolated from the boosters, reducing the payload fraction. A somewhat simpler constraint is to match the mechanical compression of the stack caused by acceleration forces. The materials (plus spacers if necessary) should have the same ratio of compressibility (modulus) to mass density, that is, the same speed of sound. That will minimize shear forces on the connections from the solar cells to the electronics and thruster ring. Mismatches will restrict the number of thinsats that can be stacked between spacers. Of course, all these problems must be designed out with mechanical CAD, and tested with centrifuges and shock tables on the ground.
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'''Composite Silicon and Pyrolytic Carbon matched to Borosilicate Glass''' One possibility is to match mechanically to the glass rather than the silicon. From the table above, borosilicate glass has a speed of sound of 5.3km/s, silicon has a speed of sound of 8.0km/s, and pyrolytic carbon has the very low speed of sound of 1.5km/s. If the silicon is thinned from 50 microns to 48 microns, and the remaining 2 microns is replaced with pyrolytic carbon, then the average speed of sound vertically through the two layers is the same 5.3km/s as the glass. The "elastic impedance" is proportional to the energy stored by propagating sound, and sound waves will reflect at impedance discontinuities. The impedance of borosilicate glass is 11.9 Kg/mm^2^s, silicon is 18.7 Kg/mm^2^s. The composite material is 12.4 Kg/mm^2^s, a much better match to glass than pure silicon, so standing waves at the interface are less likely. Finally, pyrolytic carbon is an excellent thermal conductor. The composite structure has 50% better thermal conductivity than silicon alone.

There may still be issues with the Si/polyC composite material; it may help or hurt adhesion between thinsats. black body radiation, trapped charge, etc. The stacked material is acoustically dispersive for high frequencies, and this may help with shatter resistance and handling. The carbon help may damp out vibrations faster. The final thinsat stack will consist of many layers of materials, and they will be evaluated empirically to find the best mix.

'''Curling''' can occur if the front and back sides of a thinsat (especially the solar cell) have different CTEs, and the thinsat undergoes repeated thermal cyclings. There is nothing inherent in a thinsat that establishes "flat" - it will flex until tensions and compressions are minimized. A slightly curved thinsat is not a severe operational problem. If the edges are turned up a few degrees, that will reduce collected solar energy very little. The main problem is the effect on the phasing of the radios. Significant curling will change the spacing of the radios at opposite sides of the curl, and lift them above the plane of the radios at the center of the curl. Without some means of determining precisely how much curl is there, the radios may be in incorrect phases.

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The main component by weight is the solar cell. The [[  http://www.solarworld-usa.com/SolarWorld-Opens-North.2679.0.html | Solar World plant in Hillsboro ]] is the largest solar cell manufacturer in the US - certainly the most highly automated. The solar cells in their illustrations look like 100 millimeter diameter, but perhaps they can learn to make larger ones. The main component by weight is the glass substrate, the size of a large solar cell wafer. The [[http://www.solarworld-usa.com/SolarWorld-Opens-North.2679.0.html | Solar World plant in Hillsboro ]] is the largest solar cell manufacturer in the US - certainly the most highly automated. They recently upgraded their line to 200 mm solar cells.
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The most complicated components are the microprocessors. Some version of the [[ http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/ | Intel Atom ]] may be suitable. For a server-sat, it is preferable to use a fast, deep submicron, 1V processor with heavy doping (less sensitive to radiation damage) and at least an epi substrate. A trench isolated SOI process is preferred. AMD processors are all trench isolated SOI. Intel's Penryn process, with thick Hafnium oxide gates and work-function controlled gate metalization, will also be more radiation resistant. Over time, most process improvements desirable for high performance processors will also be desirable for radiation hardness. Glass layers in flat screen displays are very similar to thinsats. Sharp makes flat screens, and I expect Sharp Labs America in Camas, Washington may become a world leader in thinsat design and a prime contractor. While the components can be attached with pick-and-place, the fluidic self-assembly techniques pioneered by Alien Technologies may provide further cost reductions. Eventually, we will be making thousands of square kilometers of thinsats - hyperautomated planar manufacturing will be essential.
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The most radiation sensitive components are likely to be the flash memory. These incorporate error correction, but software error correction and frequent rewrites may be necessary to correct for radiation induced charges. The most complicated components are the microprocessors. Some version of the [[ http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/ | Intel Atom ]] may be suitable. For a thinsat, it is preferable to use a fast, deep submicron, 1V processor with heavy doping (less sensitive to radiation damage) and an epi substrate, though a trench isolated SOI process is preferred. AMD processors are all trench isolated SOI. Intel's Penryn process, with thick Hafnium oxide gates and work-function controlled gate metalization, will also be more radiation resistant. Over time, most process improvements desirable for high performance processors will also be desirable for radiation hardness.

The most radiation sensitive components are likely to be the flash memory. These incorporate error correction, but software error correction and frequent rewrites may be necessary to correct for radiation-induced charges. Some errors may need to be restored from caches on other thinsats partway around the orbit.
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The LCD material will be pretty simple. It will need to survive freezing, and the LCDs should be divided into separately-addressed cm-sized cells so that meteorite punctures will not disable a whole LCD. That said, they only need to switch very slowly, and consequently have wide flexibility in operating voltage. They will probably be constructed from a 1 micron layer of LCD material between two pieces of indium oxide coated 30 micron thick glass (which is commercially available). This is standard technology, and has been manufactured locally by startups such as Sarif and Steridian, and is currently manufactured by Sharp in Vancouver, Washington. The electrochromic light shutter material will be pretty simple. It must survive freezing. The light shutters should be divided into separately-addressed cm-sized cells so that meteorite punctures will not disable a whole shutter. They shutters only need to switch very slowly, and consequently have wide flexibility in operating voltage. They will probably be constructed from a 1 micron layer of electrochromic material with a thin layer of indium tin oxide. Electrocromic light shutters are used for light control in tall buildings, and are used as electronically controllable passenger window shades on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
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This is pretty old, a holdover from the glass substrate days. Needs updating.

Devices and materials

A lot can be done on a very thin planar surface. Other things cannot be done easily. Here are some common electronic devices:

Thin Planar

Non-planar

Printed circuit laminates (ultrathin)

Connectors

Resistors

cooling fins

Planar Capacitors

Wound foil capacitors

pixel sensor arrays

lenses

electrochromic light modulators

LEDs (?)

Striplines

Coax

Microwave-frequency inductors

Low frequency inductors and transformers

surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators

crystals

beam lead interconnect

wirebonds and solderbumps

Here are some relevant properties of silicon, SiO2 glass, gallium arsenide, copper, aluminum, silver, gold, tantalum, indium tin oxide, kovar, invar, low expansion borosilicate glass, indium phosphide, and pyrolytic carbon, which will make up 99.9% of the weight of a thinsat:

property

Si

SiO2

Si3N4

GaAs

Cu

Al

Ag

Au

Ta

ITO

Kovar

Invar

BSiO2

InP

PyroC

Density g/cm3

2.33

2.65

3.20

5.32

8.96

2.7

10.5

19.3

16.7

6.43

7.85

8.05

2.23

4.81

2.25

Coeff. of Thermal Expansion 10-6/K

2.6

0.5

3.2

5.7

16.5

23.1

18.9

14.2

6.3

10?

5.3

1.3

3.25

4.6

4.3

Heat Capacity J/g-K

0.71

0.74

0.71

0.33

0.38

0.90

0.24

0.13

0.14

-

0.44

0.51

0.75

0.31

0.72

Heat Capacity MJ/m3-K

1.65

1.96

2.27

1.76

3.40

2.43

2.47

2.49

2.34

-

3.45

4.11

1.67

1.50

1.62

Thermal Conductivity W/m-K

149

1

30

55

401

237

430

320

58

-

17.3

10.1

1.1

68

1950

Specific thermal conductivity

64

0.4

9.4

10

45

88

41

16

3.5

-

2.5

12

0.7

14.1

870

Thermal Diffusivity mm2/s

90

0.5

13

31

118

98

174

129

25

-

5

2.5

0.3

45.3

1200

Youngs Modulus GPa

150

73

260

86

110

70

83

78

186

116

140

148

63

61

4.8

speed of sound km/s

8.0

5.2

9.0

4.0

3.5

5.1

2.8

2.0

3.3

4.2

4.2

4.3

5.3

3.6

1.5

elastic impedance Kg/mm2-s

18.7

13.9

28.8

21.4

31.4

13.7

29.5

38.8

55.7

27.3

33.2

34.5

11.9

17.1

3.3

Tensile Strength MPa

7000

50

70

57

210

40

170

100

200

120

270

680

35

-

-

Atomic Weight (avg/atom)

28

20

20

72

64

27

108

197

181

57

57

56

19

73

6

Resistivity nano-ohm-m

-

-

-

-

17

27

16

22

131

2200

490

820

-

-

14000

Dielectric Constant

11.8

3.9

7.5

12.9

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

4.6

12.5

-

Data mostly from wikipedia and various places online. See also Matweb the material properties website, B.Y.U. CTE table.

Tensile strength untrustworthy, and many parameters are anisotropic. Silicon often has small crystallographically aligned and very sharp surface pits (intentionally on solar cells) that can cause 33x stress concentrations, nucleating cracks and causing fractures at 300MPa instead of the bulk 7000MPa. Use these tensile strengths only for rough estimates.

The vast bulk of the material , and the largest pieces of of the thinsat, will be laminated engineering glass and metal. Since the thinsat undergoes wide temperature changes when it passes in and out of shadow, or undegoes thermal annealing, it will be more survivable if the glass can match silicon's 2.6E-6/Kelvin coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). Metals have very high CTEs, while SiO2 has a very low CTE, so slotted metal wires with SiO2 in the gaps is one way to make a "material" that is both conductive and has the same CTE as silicon.

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(1) Look for compounds and composite materials that closely match silicon.

Stack compression during launch Booster systems vibrate during launch. If there are regions of higher and lower compressibility and mass density, there will be standing waves and resonances in a stack of thinsats. Ideally, the design would match the mechanical properties of all the materials used, but that is unlikely given other constraints. So the stacks may need to be resonance isolated from the boosters, reducing the payload fraction. A somewhat simpler constraint is to match the mechanical compression of the stack caused by acceleration forces. The materials (plus spacers if necessary) should have the same ratio of compressibility (modulus) to mass density, that is, the same speed of sound. That will minimize shear forces on the connections from the solar cells to the electronics and thruster ring. Mismatches will restrict the number of thinsats that can be stacked between spacers. Of course, all these problems must be designed out with mechanical CAD, and tested with centrifuges and shock tables on the ground.

Composite Silicon and Pyrolytic Carbon matched to Borosilicate Glass One possibility is to match mechanically to the glass rather than the silicon. From the table above, borosilicate glass has a speed of sound of 5.3km/s, silicon has a speed of sound of 8.0km/s, and pyrolytic carbon has the very low speed of sound of 1.5km/s. If the silicon is thinned from 50 microns to 48 microns, and the remaining 2 microns is replaced with pyrolytic carbon, then the average speed of sound vertically through the two layers is the same 5.3km/s as the glass. The "elastic impedance" is proportional to the energy stored by propagating sound, and sound waves will reflect at impedance discontinuities. The impedance of borosilicate glass is 11.9 Kg/mm2s, silicon is 18.7 Kg/mm2s. The composite material is 12.4 Kg/mm2s, a much better match to glass than pure silicon, so standing waves at the interface are less likely. Finally, pyrolytic carbon is an excellent thermal conductor. The composite structure has 50% better thermal conductivity than silicon alone.

There may still be issues with the Si/polyC composite material; it may help or hurt adhesion between thinsats. black body radiation, trapped charge, etc. The stacked material is acoustically dispersive for high frequencies, and this may help with shatter resistance and handling. The carbon help may damp out vibrations faster. The final thinsat stack will consist of many layers of materials, and they will be evaluated empirically to find the best mix.

Curling can occur if the front and back sides of a thinsat (especially the solar cell) have different CTEs, and the thinsat undergoes repeated thermal cyclings. There is nothing inherent in a thinsat that establishes "flat" - it will flex until tensions and compressions are minimized. A slightly curved thinsat is not a severe operational problem. If the edges are turned up a few degrees, that will reduce collected solar energy very little. The main problem is the effect on the phasing of the radios. Significant curling will change the spacing of the radios at opposite sides of the curl, and lift them above the plane of the radios at the center of the curl. Without some means of determining precisely how much curl is there, the radios may be in incorrect phases.

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Here are some curls for various temperature and CTE changes and sizes:

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Much of the manufacturing for Server Sky can happen in Washington County, Oregon, around Hillsboro.

The main component by weight is the glass substrate, the size of a large solar cell wafer. The Solar World plant in Hillsboro is the largest solar cell manufacturer in the US - certainly the most highly automated. They recently upgraded their line to 200 mm solar cells.

Glass layers in flat screen displays are very similar to thinsats. Sharp makes flat screens, and I expect Sharp Labs America in Camas, Washington may become a world leader in thinsat design and a prime contractor. While the components can be attached with pick-and-place, the fluidic self-assembly techniques pioneered by Alien Technologies may provide further cost reductions. Eventually, we will be making thousands of square kilometers of thinsats - hyperautomated planar manufacturing will be essential.

The most complicated components are the microprocessors. Some version of the Intel Atom may be suitable. For a thinsat, it is preferable to use a fast, deep submicron, 1V processor with heavy doping (less sensitive to radiation damage) and an epi substrate, though a trench isolated SOI process is preferred. AMD processors are all trench isolated SOI. Intel's Penryn process, with thick Hafnium oxide gates and work-function controlled gate metalization, will also be more radiation resistant. Over time, most process improvements desirable for high performance processors will also be desirable for radiation hardness.

The most radiation sensitive components are likely to be the flash memory. These incorporate error correction, but software error correction and frequent rewrites may be necessary to correct for radiation-induced charges. Some errors may need to be restored from caches on other thinsats partway around the orbit.

The gallium arsenide radios will probably be made by Triquint.

The electrochromic light shutter material will be pretty simple. It must survive freezing. The light shutters should be divided into separately-addressed cm-sized cells so that meteorite punctures will not disable a whole shutter. They shutters only need to switch very slowly, and consequently have wide flexibility in operating voltage. They will probably be constructed from a 1 micron layer of electrochromic material with a thin layer of indium tin oxide. Electrocromic light shutters are used for light control in tall buildings, and are used as electronically controllable passenger window shades on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.

Washington county companies such as D.W. Fritz build wafer handling equipment .

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