SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
Award amount
$599,936Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- OPTIMAX SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-09-21
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- D2FSKN8TUFK7
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- N112-105
Research abstract
This Phase II project will focus on scaling the high speed process demonstrated in the Phase I feasibility study for high speed polishing of sapphire windows. In addition to creating optical quality windows we will also be measuring the resulting strength of the windows with destructive testing.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Super Polished Coronagraph Mirrors
- Advanced Manufacturing and Smoothing of X-Ray Mirrors, Phase II
- Advanced Manufacturing and Smoothing of X-Ray Mirrors
- Improved Curved Transparent Ceramic Structural Components
- Additive Manufacturing and Thin Film Coating Development for Lightweight Directed Energy Reflective Optics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
- Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
Research funding history
43 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2025). Reported award amounts total $16,061,855. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security