World Leader in Advanced Materials & Thin Film Coatings
Deposition Sciences, Inc., (DSI®), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, is a premier supplier of Advanced Materials and Thin Film Coatings. Located in Santa Rosa, CA, our talented workforce provides the world’s best thin film optical coatings, products and services.
Our products include
Sunshade thermal control material, space qualified materials and coatings, flexible sputtered coatings, ESD materials, beamsplitters, absorption coatings, aperture coatings, band pass filters, dark mirror coatings, cold mirrors, notch filters, long wave pass filter coatings, short wave pass filter coatings, edge/dichroic beamsplitters and custom thin film coatings.
Introducing Sunshade Tape as a flexible optical solar reflector (FOSR) for space applications.

Since 1985, DSI has provided optical coating solutions for
military and defense, aerospace, intelligence, surveillance and security (ISR) and missile targeting applications. With collaborative product development, we deliver unique thin-film solutions, developed with
proprietary coating processes, and engineering excellence for real-world challenges. DSI's custom-built coating chambers. Our patented processes provide robust, reliable, and highly durable thin-film coatings on a wide variety of flexible materials and substrates of various sizes
MicroDyn® Reactive Sputtering Coating Process

DSI’s proprietary MicroDyn coating technology accommodates the varied and often rigorous demands placed on thin film coatings.
The MicroDyn® process is a short-throw reactive sputtering process. Highly flexible with the capability to deposit metals, metal oxides, nitrides, mixed materials with fixed or graded compositions, ITO and semiconductor materials. MicroDyn coatings, including complex filters can be patterned using both contact masking and photolithography. Coatings are space qualified and meet all applicable military specifications
DSI has the expertise to participate at any level of your product development. From engineering to prototyping to full-scale manufacturing, we will work with you to develop designs, manufacturable specifications, and manufacturing techniques to meet your system level requirements.
DSI PRODUCTS:
• Sunshade Tape Thermal Control Material
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Sunshade Thermal Control Material for Space Applications
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Patterned Apertures
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Visible to MW Infrared Filter Coatings (400nm - 4.5 µm)
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Thin-Film Coatings on Flexible Materials (Kapton, PET, etc…)
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Space Grade Coatings (LEO, MEO, GEO)
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Quality Testing – ISO 9001:2015 certified
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Flexible Sputtered Coatings
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Long/Short Wave Pass
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Bandpass Filters
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Dark Mirror Coatings
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Notch Filter
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Beamsplitters
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Edge/Dichroic Beamsplitters
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Patterned Thin Film Optical Filters
Other:
• Low Observable Coatings
• Design, Engineering, Development, Low-to-High Volume Manufacturing
• ITAR Registered and Compliant
• Full Array of Spectral Measurement Capabilities
• Extensive Environmental Testing - including MIL-C-48497 and MIL-F-48616
• Classified Coatings