Deposition Sciences, Inc.
"From Earth to Orbit: Coatings Built for the Extreme"
Lockheed Martin subsidiary (founded 1985) supplying advanced thin-film optical coatings for aerospace, space, defense, medical, and automotive LIDAR.
Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI), headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin and has manufactured thin-film optical coatings since 1985. DSI's proprietary MicroDyn® magnetron reactive sputtering technology produces durable multilayer coatings spanning UV, visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR wavelength ranges. The IsoDyn LPCVD method enables conformal coatings on complex shapes.
Product lines include Sunshade® thermal control material for spacecraft operating in LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond; short/long-wave filters; notch filters; beamsplitters; bandpass filters; dichroic edge filters; and patterned thin-film coatings. Key applications include automotive LIDAR, biomedical imaging, astronomy, ISR, and spacecraft thermal management. DSI is ITAR Registered, ISO 9001:2015 certified, and CMMC cybersecurity compliant, serving commercial, military, and government customers in the space, aerospace, aviation, and defense sectors.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Sunshade Thermal Control Material
Space-qualified flexible thin-film material by DSI that reflects solar irradiance, provides ESD protection, and offers RF transmissivity for LEO, MEO, GEO, and deep-space spacecraft.
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United States
Company Facts
Founded
1985
Primary Role
Component Supplier
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Primary Region
North America
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