Affordable Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) Grid Application

In this document, Nano Terra (and its partner, Surmet) describes its approach to build on its success in Phase I, in which our researchers proved that Soft Lithography can be used to cost-effectively decorate the inside of a dome with a fine gold grid. We estimate that our final process will cost at least five-fold less per dome to use and require an order of magnitude less funding for capital equipment when a fabrication line is established. In Phase II of the research, we will optimize each step in the process for the production of gridded domes in quantity and ensure that the technology will transition to satisfy the military’s need for patterned domes. A major component of the research in Phase II is the development a device that enables the automation or semi-automated inking and stamping of the flexible stamp used to pattern the dome. We will also ensure that each step in our process is compatible with Alon and spinel, of which missile domes are made. At the end of Phase II, we will train our partner to use our method and they will fabricate 20 gridded domes and transfer them to the client.