Ceramic Radome Material

Corning produces a proprietary material corning pyroceram for use in missile radomes.

Ceramic radome material.

Ceramic radomes flying today are monolithic. The radome is the most widely used ceramic matrix composite material in missile structure. Polyurethanes are especially useful in aerospace applications where functional lightweight materials are imperative. The signature characteristics of nanosonics radome materials will be selectively tuned through the covalent integration of inner multiband frequency selective surfaces containing platinum patch elements.

That is made from a single layer of material. This effort will leverage nanosonics rapidly evolving polymer derived ceramic hybridsil nanotechnology which has demonstrated thermo. Different nose cone shapes of missile radomes are also important. In all radome applications polyurethane foams offer an effective solution for cost effective materials that are both versatile and robust.

The flexural strength dielectric constant and loss tangent values of various ceramic materials used in the development of radomes are important in the selection of radome materials. Easily optimized material allows for high performance with low dielectric interference. The missile radome is located at the front end of the missile. Corningwaretm is an example of a monolithic material similar to that used for ceramic nose radomes being a single layer inherently limits the bandwidth of the radome due to the physics of rf energy propagation.

Ceramic materials show variational properties with sintering time temperature and other additives.