SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Reflectivity, Broad-Band Silver Coating
Award amount
$596,864Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SURFACE OPTICS CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2010-03-03
- Contract end date
- 2011-12-02
- UEI
- KAMKQMGKZZR6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.05
Research abstract
Silver coatings for optics greater than 2-meters in diameter are sought by NASA for future space telescope systems. In the Phase I research, Surface Optics Corporation (SOC) investigated several new coating systems for protecting silver. The new coating designs are derivations based on a patented coating design created at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The new designs improve the coating's reflectance performance, particularly in the UV region, while maintaining stability in humid and/or corrosive environments. In addition, SOC devised and installed a new piece of coating equipment, which improves the ability to apply exceptionally thin protective layers, by better monitoring the shape of the evaporation plume.
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.
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- Compact Dyson-Based Midwave Infrared Hyperspectral Imager for Attritable Platforms
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Optical Fabrication and Metrology of Aspheric and Freeform Mirrors
- Cryogenic and Vacuum Compatible Metrology Systems
- Very large computer generated holograms for precision metrology of aspheric optical surfaces
- Optical Fabrication and Metrology of Aspheric and Freeform Mirrors
- High-Resolution Detector for At-Wavelength Metrology of X-Ray Optics
Research funding history
116 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $39,968,506. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration