Optical characterization of CV10-2568 RTV effluent

Author

Ianno, N.J. ; Pu, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-12 June 2009

Abstract

In the presence of sunlight, Volatile Condensable Material (VCM) emitted from commonly used room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) material can photochemically deposit onto optically-sensitive spacecraft surfaces and significantly alter their original, beginning-of-life (BOL) optical properties, such as solar absorptance and emittance, causing un-intended performance loss of the spacecraft. We have employed in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry to monitor in real time the condensed and photofixed effluent of RTV CV10-2568. This technique is sensitive to nm thick layers and can be used to extract n and k as a function of wavelength.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; effluents; ellipsometry; organic compounds; space vehicles; RTV CV10-2568; beginning-of-life optical properties; in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry; optically-sensitive spacecraft surfaces; performance loss; photochemical deposition; photofixed effluent; room temperature vulcanizing material; solar absorptance; solar emittance; sunlight; volatile condensable material; Aircraft manufacture; Effluents; Optical losses; Optical materials; Optical sensors; Optical surface waves; Performance loss; Photochemistry; Stimulated emission; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2009 34th IEEE

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2949-3

Electronic_ISBN

0160-8371

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411718

Filename

5411718