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Measurement and Testing Services:

AZ Technology has been in the business of developing specialized paints, coatings and materials for 18 years. Our staff has experience with coatings for space applications, having developed and applied coatings for satellites, spacecraft, the International Space Station, as well as specialized coatings for terrestrial aplications like large storage tanks, solar panels and observatories. To develop such coatings requires the ability to accurately test their properties. AZ Technology has developed and market a line of highly accurate portable laboratory instruments for measuring optical properties on a wide range of surfaces and materials.

Development of such specialized coatings and materials and instruments to measure their properties has necessarily required laboratory expertise in the measurment and testing of the properties of coated and uncoated surfaces. We offer this expertise in measurement and testing services to our customers. This includes measuring optical properties on a wide range of surfaces and materials; measurements within a vacuum chamber designed at AZ Technology including the effects of exposure to UV and vacuum UV; and a variety of tests for physical characterization of coatings.

 
       
-Optical Properties Measurement on Materials and Coatings:  
  • Total hemispherical reflectance
  • Solar absorptance, α_s.
  • Thermal emittance, ε_t.
  • Most coatings, materials and surfaces; from roofing to satellites.
  -Physical Tests for Characterization of Paints/Coatings:    
 
  • Adhesion
  • Flexibility
  • Abrasion resistance
  • Impact resistance
  • Thickness
  • Electrical resistivity or conductivity
  • Resistance to UV exposure
  • Density analysis
  • Viscosity
  • Percent pigment, percent solids.
 
  -Space Environment Effects (SEE) Testing:    
 
  • AZ custom built ultra-high vacuum chamber
  • Designed for coatings and other thin materials
  • Solar UV and vacuum UV exposure
  • In-situ optical properties measurement
 
   

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