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Sunshade Thermal Control Material
Flexible Sputtered Coatings
Infrared Narrow Bandpass Filters
Patterned Thin Film Optical Filters
Absorption (Dark Mirror) Coatings
General Capabilities Brochure
Hand Cleaning of Small Coated Optics
This note describes the procedure for hand cleaning of small (≤ 2 inch diameter) thin film coated optics. The steps presented are safe for the vast majority of optical coatings, which are typically composed of durable dielectric and semiconductor materials.
ARTICLES
Coating Technology Enables Effective Missile Countermeasures
Specifying Coatings for Military and Aerospace Applications
Specifying Optical Filters for Sensor Applications
Hyperspectral Imaging
Optics And Photonics Technology In Medical Devices: Go Small Or Go Home
Specialized Thin Film Coatings for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Optical Filters Take Food Inspection to a Whole New Level
Optical Thin Film Coating Methods
WHITE PAPERS
Applying Optical Coatings to Flexible Substrates
Versatile Reactive Sputtering
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VIDEOS

How To Specify Optical Coatings For Sensor Applications
With over 30 years of optical coating experience, Deposition Sciences, Inc. has learned a thing or two about the intricacies of our specifications. This year at SPIE’s DCS exhibition, Kevin Gibbons offers some advice on what you should consider before determining an optical coating’s specifications for sensing applications.

DSI Thin Film Coating Technologies
An optical thin film consists of one or more layers of dielectric material or metal, with individual layer thicknesses typically ranging from a few nanometers to several microns. In the case of dielectrics, these modify the reflectance and transmittance characteristics of the underlying substrate through the mechanism of optical interference, based on the exact thickness

Photolithography Technology
The drive towards smaller sensors, often integrated on monolithic substrates with other processing electronics, has created a need for coatings directly on semiconductor wafers, or on miniaturized substrates that can readily be assembled with active devices. DSI utilizes photolithography to produce a wide array of precision patterned thin film coatings (such as antireflection coatings, bandpass filters, dark mirrors, and metals), with feature sizes as small as 5 µm, on substrates up to 8 inches in diameter.

MicroDyn® Technology
MicroDyn® is DSI’s proprietary version of magnetron sputtering optimized for high throughput. MicroDyn® utilizes an octagonally shaped chamber, where electrically conductive (metal or semiconductor) coating targets are arranged around the periphery, and the parts to be coated are held on a cylindrical rotating drum concentric within the chamber. Unlike other optical coating methods, sputtering does not require heating the coated parts. This allows the technique to be used on a wide range of substrate materials, as well as on assemblies that may incorporate plastic parts.