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“ULVAC’s Technology Strategyfor Smart Society”

30 September, 2019

Koukou Suu

Executive officer and Senior Fellow, ULVAC, Inc.

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Who is ULVAC ?

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Worldwide society issues:：population expansion, aging society, urbanization

Technology to Solve

HighSmart Society

speed PredictionLow Power

ConsumptionAnytime Anywhere AutonomousWireless

Smart Society : The electronization of all industries

Medical/Healthcare Agriculture ICT Power Transportation

Shortage ofmedical facilities

Shortage ofenergy

shortage of foodand water

Trafficcongestion

Environmental issues

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AI（Big Data

Analysis）

Growth Industry

KeyDevice

Enabling Technologies for Smart Society

Mobility（Self-Driving）

AR/VR(DisasterTraining)

Drone（Unmanned

Transport）

Food（Smart

Agriculture）

Medical（RemoteMedicine）

BatteryNext generation

memoryPV

Commsdevice

Sensor/Actuator

Display

Vacuum Thin Film TechnologyKeyTechnology

Smart Satellite- Global initiatives utilizing Space -

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mobile phone

Mass Storage

Low Latency,

High Reliability

Low Frequency,

Multiple Connection

Synchronous

SatelliteLow Orbit Satellite

Aircraft

Internet

Marine Resource

Research Vessel

Farm Machinery,

Heavy Machinery

Infrastructure

monitoring

IoT

Natural

environment

monitoring

Automatic Navigation

Broadband service

5G Backhaul:Rural area, Disaster Low Latency,

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Mass Storage

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Shielding with

high-rise buildings

Base station

Wireless

communication

is not possibleMobile station

Today

○ High obstructions prevent communication○ No communication during a disaster○ High costs of base station construction

GEO AREA (Space)

LEO AREA (Exosphere)

HAPS AREA (Stratosphere)

SoftBank’s Approach:Communication connections from the stratosphere

Wide-area connectivity that spans both the sky and the ground

SoftBank’s HP6

MEMS/Sensor

Interposer

Computer

Communication

MonitoringData

Secondary Battery (Miniature TFB)

Energy Harvester

□ Smart ICT： Processor, Memory, RF module, wireless

□ Smart Functionality： MEMS/Sensor, Display

□ Smart Energy: Battery, Power device, Harvester

□ New Packaging: Heterogeneous integration□ New Material: Lead-free, Non-arsenic

Enabling Technology for the Smart Satellite

Next-generation Smart Device

The scales are different in space and the ground, but the underlying technologies are the same.

Satellite New Applications

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