Materion Electronic Materials discusses the functional applications of materials and coatings that are essential surface treatments for spacecraft and instruments to provide long service lives in the harsh thermal and pervasive radiation encountered in space environments.
In the May 2022 issue of CMN, Sam Pellicori and David Sanchez explore the heightened challenges of materials and deposition technology by reviewing the changing damage mechanisms that occur at increasing repetition rates, at even the most mature central wavelengths.
The November 2021 issue of Coating Materials News & More explores the essential considerations related to producing stable optical coatings and materials for use in spaceflight applications.
In the November 2020 issue of CMN, Sam Pellicori and David Sanchez author a technical paper about standard and advanced reflector designs, materials, and their applications.
Advances in thin-film coating technology during the past decades have focused on improving the quality of deposited layers through refinements in materials and deposition processes.
Learn more about the manufacturing of critical optical coating materials.
Materion's expanded fluoride portfolio spans the optics, photovoltaic, phosphor & battery materials industries with products to suit multiple applications.
Ion beam sputtering (IBS) was developed to enhance these properties: environmental stability, laser damage threshold and optical absorption. IBS today produces the highest quality oxide-compound films.
In this article we will look into several critical fluoride compounds for UV, VIS & IR films.
Materion introduces innovative fluoride starter sources for quality thin film optical coating.
Read Materion paper on extreme stresses faced by optical coatings in operational environments.
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