How LabForge works
You describe what the film must do and what you run it on. A first-principles physics core derives the complete process for that machine. You get an equipment-ready spec — and three revisions to calibrate it to your tool's measured state, not its nameplate.
Describe the function — and your hardware
Tell us what the film must do: the optical, mechanical, electrical, or protective function it has to perform, on what substrate, to what tolerance. Then describe the machine that will make it. No cleanup or formatting required — a process engineer's plain description is exactly the right input.
# what we need to know about your tool chamber geometry, volume, pumping, base pressure source sputter / evaporation / other — target size, material power supply DC · pulsed-DC · RF · limits gas lines which gases are plumbed, MFC ranges bias substrate bias capability, if any heater substrate temperature range
The engine calculates the complete recipe
A proprietary first-principles physics core computes the process for your exact machine. It is a physics engine, not a chatbot: every parameter is derived from the mechanism up, not looked up from a handbook or scraped from papers. The output is checked against itself before it ships — the sample recipe shows the engine catching and correcting its own first draft, then landing on a value the literature confirmed 25 years ago.
You run it — then we lock it to your machine
You receive the equipment-ready spec and run it on your tool. That first run is also a measurement: you report what the film actually did — rate, stress, adhesion, appearance, whatever you measured — and the engine baselines your hardware's real state (target erosion, gas-flow drift, sensor offset) against the computed ideal, then locks the spec to that offset. Every recipe includes 3 revisions and 1 deep analysis for exactly this. The deliverable is a process that behaves on your machine, not a PDF that looked plausible.
What a recipe contains
One document, ready for the tool. Every recipe specifies:
- Target / source material and purity spec
- Base pressure and working pressure
- Gas flows and ratios, per line
- Power, current, and voltage setpoints
- Ramp schedules — up, hold, and down
- Substrate bias settings
- Substrate temperature profile
- Deposition rate and time-to-thickness
- Expected film properties
- Failure-mode warnings for your configuration
- QC acceptance criteria
- Revision log — what the engine checked and corrected
Derived, not retrieved
A language model predicts what a plausible recipe sounds like. A physics engine computes what the process must be. LabForge is the second kind.
The method is proprietary and stays private — you receive the finished recipe, never the engine. What you can verify is the output: exact setpoints, stated limits, and a revision log that shows its work. Judge it against the published sample.
Your chamber details are used to build your recipe and are never sold or shared. The engine runs privately — only your finished recipe ships.
Every recipe states what the route does not do. If a job is not feasible on your hardware, the report says so before you spend tool time finding out.
Describe the film. We will compute the process.
Start with one recipe for one real job — $599, with 3 revisions and a deep analysis included.