Ceramic Radome Material

Different nose cone shapes of missile radomes are also important.

Ceramic radome material.

Corning produces a proprietary material corning pyroceram for use in missile radomes. Silicon nitride si3n4 ceramic is a promising ultra high speed 5 mach broadband 1 18 ghz radome material because of its excellent high temperature resistance good mechanical and dielectric. The missile radome is located at the front end of the missile. Polyurethanes are especially useful in aerospace applications where functional lightweight materials are imperative.

In all radome applications polyurethane foams offer an effective solution for cost effective materials that are both versatile and robust. Ceramic materials show variational properties with sintering time temperature and other additives. 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. 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.

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. This effort will leverage nanosonics rapidly evolving polymer derived ceramic hybridsil nanotechnology which has demonstrated thermo. Ceramic radomes flying today are monolithic. That is made from a single layer of material.

Easily optimized material allows for high performance with low dielectric interference.