Eclipse Energy Systems

About Eclipse Energy Systems

Eclipse Energy Systems is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Integration of the Eclipse Transparent Electrical Conductor and Eclipse Multiline Rejection Filter Technology for Transparent Armor Applications. The abstract given for this project is as follows: As optical systems increase in their sensitivity and sensors become more capable, modern and future rotary wing aircraft will suffer from the need to have transparent armor systems that are transparent in the visible wavelengths and sensor wavelengths of interest while incorporating low ohm coatings for shielding efficiency as well as filters to protect against laser threats. The challenge is in providing a system that increases crew protection by the reduction of laser threats, and solar loading on transparent armor while enhancing the shielding efficiency and not reducing the mission capabilities by limiting transmission in wavelengths of interest. Eclipse Energy Systems, Inc. has addressed these current and future needs with the Eclipse Transparent Electrical Conductor (TEC) and Advanced Filter Technologies such as Rugate filter systems. The EclipseTEC' is a flexible visually transparent electrical conductor (88%+ transmission at 550 nm,Eclipse Energy Systems is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Metamaterial Countermeasure and Defeat Program (MCDP). The abstract given for this project is as follows: There is an urgent need for the modeling of Metamaterials and the identification of countermeasures. Metamaterials with novel properties have been shown theoretically to provide enhanced capabilities for controlling optical, RF, and acoustic signatures and for creating novel devices. This presents potential opportunities for, and threats to, existing naval systems that depend on reflected energy signals to locate and track targets by creating effective cloaking materials. The properties of materials needed to cloak objects can be realized in principle with engineered composites, or Metamaterials. However, it is not yet known how well these materials can be realized and thus to what degree this new material design paradigm may impact naval systems. The Metamaterial Countermeasure and Defeat Program (MCDP) will use advanced techniques for the creation of metamaterials to identify and create defeat mechanisms against theses new threats. The MCDP models will result in new metamaterials that will be used to develop these next generation systems that are feared by many governments. Current metamaterial research methods will be used to predict potential characteristics and capabilities. These models will be fabricated into working systems for characterization and testing to determine effective tactics or countermeasures.Eclipse Energy Systems is a company that received a Department of Defense SBIR/STTR grant for a project entitled: Variable Optical Transmission Lens for Integrated Eyewear Protection. The abstract given for this project is as follows: The inorganic electrochromic, all-vacuum-deposited-at-low-temperature, all-solid-state variable transmission EclipseVTS' (Variable Transmission System) offered by Eclipse Energy Systems, Inc., (Eclipse) is the Army's solution. Adoption of EclipseVTS' will enable the warfighter to finally have a dimmable eyewear system that: is highly transmissive; is user controlled, is fast switching, has high range of modulation; and, is low temperature vacuum deposited directly onto the complex curved ballistic lens eliminating the vision distortion caused by the sandwiched sheets of plastic used in organic electrochromics, liquid crystal and SPD systems.