These 18x35-in ALON windows will now be laminated and incorporated into the defense system by a Major Defense Contractor. Producing the...

Surmet wins another SBIR Phase I from the U.S. Navy for the refurbishment of Infrared Search and Track (IRST) domes that deteriorate in...

The first of the two Phase II awards is from the U.S. Army entitled “Quantitative analysis of ALON® and Spinel dome blanks”, and will...

ALON® windows and domes are being evaluated in many airborne laser based systems including Airborne laser data links, Counter Manpads,...

Interestingly, no matter how large a monolithic ALON® window Surmet makes, there are always customers who want windows of even larger...

Transparent armor solutions, based on polycrystalline, transparent ceramics such as ALON® offer a factor of two improvement in areal...

During the M-GRIN program’s first phase, Surmet demonstrated the ability to create ALON® GRIN lens blanks with axial gradients. During...

While ALON has comparable mechanical (hardness and strength) and dielectric properties to alumina, its transparency and superior chemical...

Surmet focuses exclusively on customers with a critical need for advanced materials with difficult to achieve performance...

Surmet achieves full density and transparency using the conventional Sinter/HIP (Hot Isostatic Press) process that includes green body...

Multimode Seekers are receiving significant attention as a way to provide more capability in the same package. The optical requirements...

Surmet Corporation of Burlington, MA has won a Phase I SBIR program from the US Department of Energy entitled: “Durable ALON® Windows for...

Polycrystalline aluminum oxynitride, known commercially as ALON, offers performance and scaling not otherwise possible for large,...

Surmet Corporation is pleased to announce that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has chosen its UltraC Diamond Hard...

The availability of exciting new material, ALON® Optical Ceramic, couldn’t have come at a better time for many critical applications, as...

Surmet, the manufacturer of ALON® and magnesia Spinel, announces significant expansion of its optical fabrication capabilities, in each...

High Brightness LED outdoor lighting products require efficient heat removal to assure peak performance and long life. While alumina is...

ACerS established the Corporate Technical Achievement Award in 1986 to recognize and honor a single outstanding technical achievement in...

The continued DARPA funding will help Surmet to demonstrate manufacturing capability for ALON® Gradient Index (GRIN) optics for use in...