Scale Up of Large ALON? Windows

摘要

Aluminum Oxynitride (ALON? Transparent Ceramic) combines broadband transparency with excellent mechanicalproperties. ALON’s cubic structure means that it is transparent in its polycrystalline form, allowing it to be manufacturedby conventional powder processing techniques.Surmet’s has been producing and delivering ALON? windows as large as 4.4 sq. Ft. for both Armor and Sensor windowapplications. We have also recently scaled up our ALON? process to produce windows as large as 8 sq. Ft. for sensorwindow applications. Initial prototype windows of this size have been produced. These windows exhibit the sameexcellent levels of transmission, haze and clarity as seen in smaller ALON? windows that we have produced.