Micro-POD Technology
The production foundation for carbon-to-compute.
Micro-POD is American Graphene’s proprietary, modular, isolated, AI-managed, multi-phase, multi-chamber carbon-to-graphene production architecture. It is designed to accept carbon in multiple conditioned forms and progressively prepare, refine, position, and transform that carbon into pristine single-layer graphene sheets.
What Makes Micro-POD Different
Micro-POD is not a conventional CVD system, flash Joule process, exfoliation line, molten-carbonate electrolysis route, or literature-pathway assembly. It is one integrated engineering architecture designed around a continuous carbon-to-graphene chain.
Feedstock Flexibility
Designed for captured, mineral-bound, carbon-black, and other conditioned carbon inputs.
Phase Separation
Sequential process environments reduce overlap and support contamination control.
Applied-Physics Coordination
Thermal processing, plasma, vacuum, electromagnetic fields, catalysts, and material handling are treated as one controlled system.
Touchless Processing
Isolated transfer, deposition, finishing, and handling are designed to minimize human contact and contamination.
Instrumented Learning
Sensors, telemetry, quality records, and experiment provenance support iterative validation and future fleet learning.
AI Management
Harmony AI is designed to coordinate monitoring, feedback, safety, material tracking, and process optimization as physical validation advances.
Public Process View
Carbon Preparation
Condition the selected carbon input, control contamination, and prepare the material for sequential transformation.
Controlled Conversion
Use coordinated thermal, plasma, vacuum, electromagnetic, and catalyst-assisted environments to progress the carbon through the required material states.
Carbon Refinement
Refine and condition elemental carbon for controlled placement and graphene formation.
Precision Sheet Formation
Pursue single-layer graphene through proprietary precision material-deposition and controlled finishing methods.
Qualification and Learning
Characterize layer count, purity, continuity, defect density, electrical behavior, thermal behavior, yield, and process repeatability. Feed the results back into the next test cycle.
Intended Product
Pristine single-layer graphene sheets produced through a repeatable, scalable, and instrumented manufacturing process.
The validation program must determine whether the system can consistently deliver the quality required for advanced industrial and electronic applications.
Validation Priorities
- Feedstock composition and preparation
- Catalyst selection, lifetime, and reaction behavior
- Plasma-stage performance and control
- Vacuum integrity and chamber stability
- Electromagnetic containment and field uniformity
- Carbon-conversion mechanisms and mass balance
- Isolated material transfer
- Carbon refinement and dimensional consistency
- Precision material deposition
- Graphene formation, release, and handling
- Independent materials characterization
- Safety systems and operating controls
- Yield, repeatability, energy use, uptime, and economics
Information Boundary
Public materials describe Micro-POD’s purpose, architecture class, validation priorities, and intended product. Detailed process sequences, tuning logic, catalyst formulations, protected geometries, control recipes, and execution parameters remain within protected technical layers.