Tools

Metrology, Without Silos

Why It Matters

Most labs are not limited by hardware.

They are limited by fragmentation.

RHEED runs in one window.
Flux monitoring in another.
Pyrometry somewhere else.
Laser reflectance on a separate PC.
QMS on vendor software that hasn’t changed in ten years.

Each tool works.

But together, they do not think.

And the operator becomes the integration layer.

That fragmentation is not harmless.

It hides patterns.
It masks correlations.
It introduces noise.
It limits discovery.


Integrated by Design

UnicornOne integrates metrology tools into the control plane.

Not as external viewers.
Not as stitched overlays.
But as structured, first-class signals.

Current suite includes:

Each operates independently.
But more importantly — they operate together.


Beyond Vendor Silos

We do not rip and replace vendor software.

We domain-specifically enhance it.

If a vendor tool is good at acquisition, keep it.

UnicornOne:

  • Integrates its signals
  • Normalizes its data
  • Correlates it with process state
  • Makes it programmable
  • Makes it orchestratable

Everyone has waited for a vendor to add “that one feature” that would make life easier.

We don’t wait.

We subsume.


Seeing More Because It’s Unified

When temperature, pressure, RHEED intensity, flux stability, QMS spectra, and reflectance all live inside one structured system:

Patterns emerge.

Users are already making discoveries that were previously buried under noise and scatter.

Not because the hardware changed.

But because the data stopped being fragmented.

That is not cosmetic.

That is structural.


Orchestrated Intelligence

Because all tools feed into a unified state model:

They can be orchestrated holistically.

  • Trigger RHEED capture during critical growth transitions
  • Adjust flux based on reflectance slope
  • Pause growth if QMS detects contamination
  • Correlate IR camera drift with PID instability

This is not AI “analysis after the fact.”

This is AI operating across the entire metrology layer in real time.


New Experiments, New Workflows

When tools are integrated:

You can design experiments that were previously impractical.

  • Cross-tool conditional logic
  • Automated calibration layers
  • Multi-signal anomaly detection
  • Feedback loops spanning multiple instruments

You start thinking differently.

Because the system supports it.


The Philosophy

Metrology should not live in silos.

It should live inside the process.

When tools are integrated:

You see more.
You know more.
You can do more.

UnicornOne does not simply visualize signals.

It turns them into an orchestrated, programmable intelligence layer.