Aviation Transparencies

Vacuum Coating Equipment & Technologies

Are you look­ing for equip­ment to de­posit func­tion­al coat­ings on trans­par­ent 3‑D geo­met­ries for aero­space ap­plic­a­tions—an­ti‑fog, de‑ic­ing, EMI shield­ing, IR shad­ing, UV pro­tec­tion, or elec­tro­chro­mic per­for­mance?

Our phys­i­cal va­por de­po­si­tion (PVD) sys­tems are pur­pose‑built for the tight tol­er­ances of aero­space op­tics, de­liv­er­ing high‑per­for­mance coat­ings on large, curved trans­par­ent sur­faces and free‑form geo­met­ries. With syn­chro­nized mul­ti‑axis mo­tion, you can uni­form­ly coat com­plex cur­va­tures and three‑di­men­sion­al glass sub­strates to main­tain con­sis­tent op­tic­al thick­ness and low scat­ter across domes, ca­nop­ies, len­ses, and other non‑plan­ar sur­faces.

In‑sit­u tar­get ex­change lets you de­posit trans­par­ent con­duc­tive ox­ides and met­al­lic lay­ers di­rect­ly on­to in­ner or out­er free‑form sur­faces with­out re‑fix­tur­ing, en­abling pre­cise place­ment of con­duc­tive or re­flec­tive stacks on parts with lim­ited ac­cess or chal­leng­ing geo­me­try.

Com­plex coat­ing runs are cre­at­ed by im­port­ing CAD/CAM mod­els to gen­er­ate tai­lored de­po­si­tion re­cip­es. Of­line pro­gram­ming with col­li­sion de­tec­tion stream­lines pro­duc­tion set­up, re­duces risk to parts and tool­ing, and speeds qual­i­fi­ca­tion cy­cles.

We sup­ply the coat­ing equip­ment and pro­cess sup­port need­ed to de­vel­op and man­u­fac­ture free‑form aero­space op­tics.