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Self-Assembled Optical Coatings for Helmet Mounted Display Visors

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: F33615-02-C-6065
Agency Tracking Number: 011HE-0965
Amount: $746,905.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2002
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 618
Christiansburg, VA 24068
United States
DUNS: 008963758
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kristie Cooper
 Principal Investigator
 (540) 953-1785
 klcooper@nanosonic.com
Business Contact
 Richard Claus
Title: President
Phone: (540) 953-1785
Email: roclaus@nanosonic.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

"The proposed Phase II program will optimize, upscale and transition to application electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) processes for the synthesis of durable optical coatings on helmet mounted display visors. The room temperature and pressure ESA coatingprocess consists of alternate adsorption of anionic and cationic molecules from water solutions to form multilayer coatings monolayer-by-monolayer. Selection of the molecules in each monolayer, and the order of the monolayers through the coating, allowsexcellent control, combination and grading of multiple properties, including electrical conductivity, dielectric constant and loss tangent, thickness, optical transmissivity, abrasion resistance, thermal robustness, and electric field-controlledproperties. ESA films may be dipped or sprayed under ambient conditions to conformally coat surfaces of virtually any size or shape, without the need for vacuum chamber confinement. During the ongoing Phase I program, NanoSonic has demonstrated thesynthesis, self-assembly and characterization of the high index polymers necessary for effective optical filter design, and are currently working to optimize the synthesis procedures and resulting self-assembled structures. In Phase II, NanoSonic wouldbuild directly on these promising results to optimize the optical filter design and fabricate multilayer reflectance filters that can be coated directly on helmet visors for display applications. Nano

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