Technology/Business Opportunity Transparent Ceramics Fabricated by Material Jet Printing Tender

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Country : USA

Summary : Technology/Business Opportunity Transparent Ceramics Fabricated by Material Jet Printing

Deadline : 11 Feb 2024

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 95094519

Document Ref. No. : IL-13554

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Description

Opportunity:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract no. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and commercialize its Transparent Ceramics Fabricated by Material Jet Printing technology.



Background:

Optical gain media configurations that work best for high power lasers, especially planar waveguide lasers, are not easily fabricated from single crystal boules or through standard hot-pressing techniques. There is a need in the laser industry for a cost-effective method to produce planar waveguides used for laser gain media with 3D control of the index and gain profiles in the fast, slow, and longitudinal axes. An optic of this nature could have enhanced mode stability and efficiency.



Description:

This invention is about a Material Jetting technique used to form a ceramic green body that is subsequently processed into a transparent ceramic optic with unique tunable spatial control of the composition as a function of position only achievable via additive manufacturing methods. This method uses ceramic particles loaded into a liquid slurry with required viscosity and surface tension to be jetted from a nozzle in discrete individual droplets of

Advantages/Benefits:

Enables fabrication of transparent ceramic optics with unique tunable spatial control of the composition as a function of position. Enables fabrication of structures with complex composition and optical functionality. Enables both rapid and gradual compositional changes. Useful for producing gain media (e.g. planar waveguide, thin disk, rod, etc.) with controlled 3D dopant and/or index profiles. Offers enhanced mode stability and efficiency improvements over conventional devices.

Potential Applications:

Fabrication of transparent ceramic optics with co...
Active Contract Opportunity Notice ID IL-13554 Related Notice Department/Ind. Agency ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Sub-tier ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF Office LLNS – DOE CONTRACTOR
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-08:00) PACIFIC STANDARD TIME, LOS ANGELES, USA
Original Published Date: Jan 11, 2024 11:36 am PST
Original Response Date: Feb 11, 2024 12:00 pm PST
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: Feb 26, 2024
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NAICS Code: 333248 - All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Place of Performance: Livermore, CA USA

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