Durable coatings for IR windows

Lee M. Goldman; Santosh K. Jha; Nilesh Gunda; Rick Cooke; Neeta Agarwal; Suri A. Sastri; Alan Harker; Jim Kirsch

doi:10.1117/12.607597

18 May 2005 Durable coatings for IR windows

Lee M. Goldman, Santosh K. Jha, Nilesh Gunda, Rick Cooke, Neeta Agarwal, Suri A. Sastri, Alan Harker, Jim Kirsch

Proceedings Volume 5786, Window and Dome Technologies and Materials IX; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.607597
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Durable coatings of silicon-carbon-oxy-nitride (a.k.a. SiCON) are being developed to protect high-speed missile windows from the environmental loads during flight. Originally developed at Rockwell Scientific Corporation (RSC) these coatings exhibited substantial promise, but were difficult to deposit. Under a DoD DARPA SBIR Phase I program, Surmet Corporation, working closely with RSC, is depositing these coatings using an innovative vacuum vapor deposition process. High rate of coating deposition and the ease of manipulating the process variables, make Surmet’s process suitable for the deposition of substantially thick films (up to 30 μm) with precisely controlled chemistry. Initial work has shown encouraging results, and the refinement of the coating and coating process is still underway. Coupons of SiN and SiCON coatings with varying thickness on a variety of substrates such as Si-wafer, ZnS and ALON were fabricated and used for the study. This paper will present and discuss the results of SiN and SiCON coatings deposition and characterization (physical, mechanical and optical properties) as a basis for evaluating their suitability for high speed missile windows application.

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Lee M. Goldman, Santosh K. Jha, Nilesh Gunda, Rick Cooke, Neeta Agarwal, Suri A. Sastri, Alan Harker, and Jim Kirsch "Durable coatings for IR windows", Proc. SPIE 5786, Window and Dome Technologies and Materials IX, (18 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.607597

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