Ceramic Radome Material

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.

Ceramic radome material.

That is made from a single layer of material. The missile radome is located at the front end of the missile. Ceramic material is the preferred material for missile radome because of its excellent mechanical thermal and electrical properties. Corning produces a proprietary material corning pyroceram for use in missile radomes.

This effort will leverage nanosonics rapidly evolving polymer derived ceramic hybridsil nanotechnology which has demonstrated thermo. 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. The glass ceramic material produced by corning since the 1950s is opaque gray in color and has high strength high elastic modulus and uniform dielectric properties. 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. Ceramic materials show variational properties with sintering time temperature and other additives. Ceramic radomes flying today are monolithic. 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.