SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reduced-Cost Grinding and Polishing of Large Sapphire Windows
Award amount
$149,930Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- OPTIMAX SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2011-10-26
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- D2FSKN8TUFK7
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- N112-105
Research abstract
This feasibility study will focus on implementing our VIBE technology on large sapphire substrates. We have had past success with hard polycrystalline materials with removal rates 10-50x higher than conventional polishing. We feel confident that we can obtain similar high removal rates on sapphire. Most of our work will be focused on maintaining a wave front quality of lambda/10 over the entire large aperture.
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