Space Optics
Enabling optical advancements with lightweight, machinable materials for use in telescopes and optical sensors.
Are you challenged with creating more sophisticated satellite designs while reducing costs? Entegris’ proprietary SUPERSiC® silicon carbide (SiC) material solutions can unlock new creative possibilities and help you create complex, customizable, and more finely detailed designs. Using our chemical vapor conversion (CVC) process, we can make SiC accessible and affordable, allowing our customers to do more than they ever thought possible.
Our still, lightweight, and high-performing materials have enabled production and development of substrates, structures, and monolithic telescopes with high resonant frequency and low thermal distortion. This makes them an ideal solution for applications requiring outstanding thermomechanical stability.
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Key Benefits
- Complex shapes and structures, simplified
- Low thermal sensitivity to eliminate distortion in extreme conditions
- High stiffness and strength resulting in better signal stability
- Lightweight structures to help with overall weight reductions
- Cost-effective solution resulting in 50-70% lower costs for Earth observation
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Elevate Your Aerospace Innovations with Entegris
Learn how Entegris works with our space and aerospace customers to develop safe, durable, and high-precision components that can withstand the toughest environments. Runtime: 1:12.
Silicon Carbide for Space Optics
In this video, learn how Entegris harnesses chemical vapor conversion to rapidly create space optics components from silicon carbide. Runtime: 01:34
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Fast Economical Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Mirrors
Read how silicon carbide is an excellent material for fabricating optical mirrors because it combines high hardness, high stiffness, low density, high thermal conductivity, and low coefficient of thermal expansion with corrosion resistance and a long life.
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SUPERSiC Materials
Learn about the unique properties of Entegris SUPERSiC components and choose the right coatings and infiltration materials to serve your specific needs.
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