Surmet Achieves Major Milestone on its ALON® Window Scale-up Program
These 18x35-in ALON windows will now be laminated and incorporated into the defense system by a Major Defense Contractor. Producing the...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Wins Another SBIR Phase I from the U.S. DoD
Surmet wins another SBIR Phase I from the U.S. Navy for the refurbishment of Infrared Search and Track (IRST) domes that deteriorate in...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Wins Two More SBIR Phase II Awards from DOD
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...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Transparent ALON Windows are Currently Being Evaluated for Use in Many Laser Applications
ALON® windows and domes are being evaluated in many airborne laser based systems including Airborne laser data links, Counter Manpads,...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Advances in Making Large ALON® Transparent Armor Windows
Interestingly, no matter how large a monolithic ALON® window Surmet makes, there are always customers who want windows of even larger...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Expands ALON® Production Capabilities to Meet Growing Demand
Transparent armor solutions, based on polycrystalline, transparent ceramics such as ALON® offer a factor of two improvement in areal...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet-led Team Wins Phase II Award from DARPA to Develop ALON® Manufacturable Graded Refractive Ind
During the M-GRIN program’s first phase, Surmet demonstrated the ability to create ALON® GRIN lens blanks with axial gradients. During...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
The Successful Demonstration of the Bonding of Metal to ALON® Optical Ceramic Creates many New Oppor
While ALON has comparable mechanical (hardness and strength) and dielectric properties to alumina, its transparency and superior chemical...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Corporation Enters 30th Year of Operations with Many Significant Accomplishments
Surmet focuses exclusively on customers with a critical need for advanced materials with difficult to achieve performance...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Scanning Electron Microscopy of Fracture Reveals Significant Grain Boundary Weakness in Lithium Fluo
Surmet achieves full density and transparency using the conventional Sinter/HIP (Hot Isostatic Press) process that includes green body...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Army's SBIR Phase I Award to Boost Surmet's Lower Cost Fabrication of IR Optics from ALON® and Spine
Multimode Seekers are receiving significant attention as a way to provide more capability in the same package. The optical requirements...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Versatile ALON® Optical Ceramic in Energy Applications
Surmet Corporation of Burlington, MA has won a Phase I SBIR program from the US Department of Energy entitled: “Durable ALON® Windows for...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
ALONTM MATERIAL SUCCESSFULLY SCALEDUP FOR MILITARY AND COMMERCIALAPPLICATIONS
Polycrystalline aluminum oxynitride, known commercially as ALON, offers performance and scaling not otherwise possible for large,...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet’s UltraC Diamond Hard Carbon Coating To Get First Flight Test onHubble Hardware
Surmet Corporation is pleased to announce that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has chosen its UltraC Diamond Hard...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Transparent ALON® Optical Ceramic to the Rescue
The availability of exciting new material, ALON® Optical Ceramic, couldn’t have come at a better time for many critical applications, as...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Strengthens Fabrication Capability for Transparent Ceramic Armor and IR optics Products
Surmet, the manufacturer of ALON® and magnesia Spinel, announces significant expansion of its optical fabrication capabilities, in each...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet Announces the Expansion of its Aluminum Nitride (AlN) Manufacturing Operations
High Brightness LED outdoor lighting products require efficient heat removal to assure peak performance and long life. While alumina is...
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Surmet
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Surmet wins ACerS Corporate Technical Achievement Award
ACerS established the Corporate Technical Achievement Award in 1986 to recognize and honor a single outstanding technical achievement in...
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- Dec 17, 2013
- 2 min
Surmet Wins 3-year DARPA Funding for Fabrication of ALON® Optical Ceramics
The continued DARPA funding will help Surmet to demonstrate manufacturing capability for ALON® Gradient Index (GRIN) optics for use in...
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