Technologies
Atomic Oxygen Cleaning
Technology/Research Areas
- Large area atomic oxygen plasma cleaning
- Atmospheric atomic oxygen beam cleaning
- Atomic oxygen cleaning of organic contaminants from surfaces of materials.
- Restoration of soot and fire damaged paintings and art objects.
- Surface chemical cleaning and morphology modification of polymer surfaces for improved bonding.
- Biofilm retardation and sterilization
Facilities
- Large Area Atomic Oxygen Plasma Facility
- Atmospheric Atomic Oxygen Beam Facility
- Heated Ozone Cleaning and Sterilization System
High Performance Power Materials
Technology/Research Areas
- High electrical conductivity composites
- Electromagnetic interference shielding
- Lightweight substitutes for aluminum electronics enclosures
- Arc proof solar array surfaces
- High emittance heat receiver and radiator surfaces
Facilities
- Graphite Intercalation
- Dual Ion Beam Deposition System
- Atomic Oxygen Directed Beam
- Arc Texturing
Optical and Thermal Property Measurement
Technology/Research Areas
- Solar Absorptance Measurement
- Thermal Emittance Measurement
- Specular, Diffuse and Total Spectral Transmittance, Reflectance and Absorptance Measurements in ultraviolet,visible, near infra-red and infra-red
Facilities
- SOC 400T Portable Infrared Reflectometer
- Cary 5000 Spectrophotometer
- DB-100 Room Temperature Emissometer
- Nicolet FT-IR Spectrophotometer
- D&S Portable Specular Reflectometer
Surface Texturing of Materials
Technology/Research Areas
- Improved heat transfer for space power system radiator surfaces
- Increased cellular attachment and fixation to implants
- Surfaces for enhanced cell culturing
- Increased diffuse light transmittance
- Uniform fiber optic illumination
- Alteration of wettability
- Reduced friction surfaces for elastomers
- Increased solar absorptance
- Increased thermal emittance
- Improved adhesive bonding of polymers, metals, and composites
- Improved paintability
- Catalytic surfaces
- High emittance heat receiver and radiator surfaces
Facilities
- Arc Texturing Facility
- Ion Beam Texturing (Dual Beam Sputter Deposition Facility)
- Electro-chemical Texturing
- Atomic Oxygen Texturing
Space Environment Simulation
Technology/Research Areas
- Atomic oxygen durability testing
- Ultraviolet durability testing
- Lunar dust adhesion testing
- Mars atmosphere chemistry interaction testing
- Thermal cycling durability testing
- Synergistic low earth orbital durability testing
- Contamination evaluation
- Low temperature electronics performance evaluation
Facilities
- Atomic Oxygen Directed Beam Facility
- Atomic Oxygen Hyperthermal Energy Chamber
- Atomic Oxygen Thermal Energy Chambers
- Vacuum and Near Ultraviolet Radiation Belljar
- Lunar Dust Adhesion Belljar
- Mars Atmospheric Chemistry Simulator
- Low Temperature Soak and Thermal Cycling with Electronics Performance Evaluation
Thin Film Coatings
Technology/Research Areas
- Arc-proof solar array surfaces
- Atomic oxygen durability/protection
- Optical property alteration
- Thermal control surfaces
- Improved abrasion resistance.
- Increased water repelling
- Anti-fogging
- Wear resistance
- Chemical barriers
- Oxygen barriers over polymers
- Moisture barriers over polymers
- Dry film lubrication
- Controlled surface conductivity
- High infrared transmittance
- Ultraviolet light absorption
- Antimicrobial surfaces
- High strain-to-failure mixed fluoropolymer and metal oxide films
Facilities
- Dual-Beam Sputter Deposition Facility
- Electron Beam Evaporator Facility