ZeCoat has developed a unique vacuum coating system, which utilizes a motion-controlled electron beam evaporator, which can uniformly coat substrates up to 2-meters in diameter with exceptional layer precision to serve the astronomy community.

Meter-class Mirror Coating Services:

  • Protected Silver Coating

    Reflectance: Avg. R: 96% over wavelength range 350nm - 1000nm

    Durability: passes MIL-13830-B

    Flight Heritage: Kepler Space Telescope primary mirror.

    Variations: May be modified to enhance reflection, durability, and/or wavelength range.

    Price Drivers: Substrate size, quantity, level of difficulty

    Max Substrate Size: 2.0-meter diameter

    Email to inquire: info@zecoat.com

  • FUV Aluminum Coating

    Reflectance: R: >96% @ 121-nm

    Durability: Passes MIL-13830B

    Variations: May be modified to enhance reflection, durability, and wavelength range

    Price Drivers: substrate size, quantity, level of difficulty

    Max Substrate Size: 2.0-meter diameter

    Email to inquire: info@zecoat.com

  • Protected Gold Coating

    Avg. R: >98% over wavelength range 800nm - >5000-nm

    Durability: passes MIL-13830-B

    Variations Offered: Yes, this coating can be modified to enhance reflection, durability, and wavelength range.

    Price drivers: substrate size, quantity, level of difficulty

    Max substrate size: 2.0-meters in diameter

  • Multi-Layer Dielectric Coating

    With our unique motion-controlled coating process, complex dielectric coatings such as AR, bandpass, and dielectric mirrors, may be applied to any size substrate, limited only by the size of the vacuum chamber.

    Current max substrate size: 2.0-meters in diameter

  • Spacecraft Thermal Control

    Flight Heritage: Yes, this coating was flown on NASA’s Mars InSight lander seismometer cover to reduce glint.

  • Silicon Cladding

    A thick layer of silicon 100+ microns may be applied as a means of optical finishing for a low-stress near zero CTE surface. The amount of silicon is tailorable.

    Max substrate size: Up to 2.0-meters

  • Black Edge Coating BEC-1-T

    Avg. R < 1.5%; Max R < 2.4% from 450-nm to 850-nm @ 8° AOI

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