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Avionics

Cover glass, touchscreen and display solutions for cockpit and other avionic displays.

Avionic displays are a key market for Dontech optical filters.  They are provided stand alone or integrated as part of our enhancements to touchscreens and displays.  Dontech supports display and touchscreen enhancements for all types of aircraft (i.e., fixed wing, rotary aircraft, and space-based platforms), and mobile and fixed displays (e.g., cockpit entertainment) used in flight operations.  Common enhancements include reflection control/sunlight readability, EMI/RFI shielding, night vision imaging system (NVIS) compatibility, and transparent heating solutions to optimize high-performance avionic systems. Current applications include optical, electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC), and environmental enhancement of primary and secondary flight displays, single or multi-functional, touch and non-touch, and heads up and heads down display formats. 

Solutions

Optical Filters

Optical Filters / Display Cover Glass including EMI/RFI shielding filters and transparent heaters for full graphic and video displays to be integrated by our customers.

Enhanced Touchscreens

Custom touchscreens with high performance modifications including low reflection cover glass and integrated EMI/RFI shielding for EMC compliance.

Display Solutions

Brightness and contrast enhancement along with fully integrated optical filters and enhanced touchscreens for optical EMI/RFI shielding, low temperature operation, and NVIS compatibility.

Optical Filters

Optical Filters / Display Cover Glass including EMI/RFI shielding filters and transparent heaters for full graphic and video displays to be integrated by our customers.

Enhanced Touchscreens

Custom touchscreens with high performance modifications including low reflection cover glass and integrated EMI/RFI shielding for EMC compliance.

Display Solutions

Brightness and contrast enhancement along with fully integrated optical filters and enhanced touchscreens for optical EMI/RFI shielding, low temperature operation, and NVIS compatibility.

Key Elements

As an AS9100D and ISO-9001:2015 certified designer and manufacturer of optical filters, including thin film coatings and laminations, for demanding applications, Dontech builds a variety of optical products with the following performance enhancing elements:

  • High Performance Transparent Conductive Coatings
  • Conductive Optical Grids
    • Etched and Patterned Conductive Optical Grids
    • Plated Woven Meshes

Low and High Temperature Compensation

  • Short Wave Pass Filters – Reflective “Hot Mirrors”
  • Absorptive Filters – Front surface and backlighting enhancements
  • Shock and Vibration Resistance
  • Altitude
  • Salt Fog
  • Thermal Range
  • Other enhancements for compliance with military and avionic environmental standard (e.g., MIL-STD-810) requirements

HOW WE ADDRESS YOUR NEEDS

Dontech’s extensive in-house, vertical clean room manufacturing and metrology/testing capabilities enable us to control the performance-driving variables tightly and uniquely in our display enhancement products. Highly specialized control over key processes ensures the reliability of critical systems such as avionic displays, that have very expensive qualification and requalification protocols. Dontech’s broad in-house processing allows for support of legacy products such as CRTs and analog displays.

Avionic Precision Optics Solutions

Precision optics and assembly applications are a key Dontech avionic market.  Dontech designs and manufactures precision optics for applications including targeting, imaging, and sensing optical assemblies for a broad range of fixed and rotary wing aircraft.  We also manufacture larger and more structural optics and optical EMI/RFI shielding components (e.g., aircraft window components).  See precision optics industry page for more details.

Case Studies

Custom Cockpit Display Solution for a Next Gen Military Fighter

When the stakes are high, you need to see clearly and precisely in a high RF noise world. Find out how Dontech designed and manufactured a high-performance optical filter for a military aircraft.

DONTECH & Avionics

Dontech has extensive engineering and technical support resources that can assist you with your avionic display enhancement design needs. Our technical staff have diverse backgrounds relevant to high-performance display and precision optics markets. For many of our top customers, we function as an extension of their engineering departments, supporting projects from concept to final system delivery. We will integrate our optical filters and other enhancing components into touchscreens, displays, and systems to the level that is needed by our customers.

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