SBIR/STTR Research Award
Radiation Hard Multi-Layer Optical Coatings
Award amount
$99,935Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- NANOHMICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-01-18
- Contract end date
- 2008-07-21
- UEI
- K39ENMXNLA73
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S2.04
Research abstract
Next generation space telescopes require advanced optical coatings to provide low loss transmission of light in a variety of spectral ranges and protect optical components from damage in a space environment. In this SBIR program Nanohmics proposes to examine uses of amorphous nitrides and oxides as a high quality, long lived coating for production of wide-acceptance angle IR anti-reflection and band-pass coatings on optical components. Amorphous nitrides are hard, flexible wide-bandgap semiconductor materials that can be used as an optical coating. Alternating layers of high index nitrides such as AlN combined with low index oxides such as SiO2 can be used to make good wide acceptance angle anti-reflective coatings for a variety of optical components.
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.
- In-situ Multispectral Array Pixelation for Quantum Dot Scene Projectors
- Meta-optic Spectropolarimeter For Heliophysics Imaging
- High Efficiency, Modular T-form Space Refrigeration
- Catalytic Aptazymes for Robust OP Nerve Agent Protection
- Inversely-designed dispersion-engineered electrically small antennas
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low Coherence Wavefront Probe for Nanometer Level Free-Form Metrology
- Freeform Optics for Optical Payloads with Reduced Size and Weight
- Pre-Collimator Chemical Milling for X-ray Telescopes
- Pyramid Nanostructured Coatings for Stray Light Suppression
- Battery-Powered Process for Coating Telescope Mirrors in Space
Research funding history
306 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $109,302,435. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture