{"id":906852,"date":"2026-06-13T23:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/from-2017-note-to-proof-of-function-how-semiconductor-material-discovery-smd-reached-the-storefront\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:25:27","slug":"from-2017-note-to-proof-of-function-how-semiconductor-material-discovery-smd-reached-the-storefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/from-2017-note-to-proof-of-function-how-semiconductor-material-discovery-smd-reached-the-storefront\/","title":{"rendered":"From 2017 Note to Proof of Function: How Semiconductor Material Discovery (SMD) Reached the Storefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"meta\">Graduation arc &middot; Semiconductor Material Discovery (SMD) &middot; Invent Deposition #2114 (2017) &rarr; Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1<\/p>\n<h2>The 2017 seed-line<\/h2>\n<p>In 2017, the entry that became <a href=\"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/store\/semiconductor-proof-1.html\">Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1<\/a> was written down as <strong>Invent Deposition #2114<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Optically written magnetic object is a simple name for the laser written optically printed chip as an circuit processor as opposed to a diffused optically printed chip copyright (c) 2018 chris gabriel brown.&rdquo;<span class=\"cr\">&mdash; &copy; 2017 Christopher Gabriel Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>What changed between 2017 and the product on the shelf<\/h2>\n<p>The 2017 entry was a single insight about material selection and fabrication. Between then and the Proof of Function on the storefront, the SMD work hardened into a discovery-and-scoring pipeline: candidate material families ranked by electron mobility, lattice fit, and process compatibility at closed-loop, design-target conditions. The Proof of Function exposes the scoring framework, sample candidate runs, and the data-portability format the partner team would consume under an evaluation licence. Patent-pending; design targets only \u2014 no warranted fab yield.<\/p>\n<h2>Where it sits in the four-step framework<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Proof of Function<\/strong> &mdash; this article&rsquo;s SKU. A working write-up against representative inputs; available for licensing review at <a href=\"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/store\/semiconductor-proof-1.html\">Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tech Validation<\/strong> &mdash; bench data and reproducibility under an evaluation licence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eval Licence<\/strong> &mdash; supervised use of the IP package by a partner team.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Full Acquisition<\/strong> &mdash; the patent application, prior-art binder, and prosecution file transfer in full.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"grad\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/store\/semiconductor-proof-1.html\">&rarr; Open the Proof of Function: Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prov\">Provenance: published 2017 in the Invent Depositions collection (Invent Deposition #2114); part of an intellectual-property portfolio with U.S. patent applications dating to 2012; independently timestamped by the Internet Archive. Patent-pending. Design targets, not warranted performance. First to market &mdash; documented public offering, not a determination of patent priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation arc &middot; Semiconductor Material Discovery (SMD) &middot; Invent Deposition #2114 (2017) &rarr; Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1 The 2017 seed-line In 2017, the entry that became Semiconductor Fabrication \u2014 Proof of Function #1 was written down as Invent Deposition #2114: &ldquo;Optically written magnetic object is a simple name for the laser written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}