Quantum Coating

September, 2007

QCI is awarded the contract to coat the primary mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The 6.5 meter primary will be comprised of 18 1.5 meter beryllium segments, each of which will be coated with a Denton proprietary gold coating at QCI

“This is a great day for our company”, said QCI President Dan Patriarca. “It is a testament to our longstanding reputation in the aerospace arena and a credit to everyone in the Quantum/Denton organization. We are very excited to be involved in the JWST program”

JWST will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.

Several innovative technologies have been developed for JWST. These include a folding, segmented primary mirror, adjusted to shape after launch; ultra-lightweight beryllium optics; detectors able to record extremely weak signals, microshutters that enable programmable object selection for the spectrograph; and a cryocooler for cooling the mid-IR detectors to 7K. The long-lead items, such as the beryllium mirror segments and science instruments, are under construction. All mission enabling technologies will be demonstrated by January 2007.

The Launch is planned for 2013. For more about JWST, visit: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/about.html

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August, 2007

QCI begins construction of their new Clean Room and Coating Facility at 1259 North Church Street, Moorestown, NJ. A new, Class 1000 (ISO Class 6) clean area is being constructed to house the deposition chambers from both Quantum’s existing facility and the Denton Coating Group. In addition, 2 new 1.5m chambers are being added to increase production capacity. “We are all excited about the new facility”, said QCI President Dan Patriarca. “The combination of extra chambers and a cleaner environment will allow us to improve quality and increase production”. The facility is scheduled for completion by October 2007.

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May, 2007

QCI gains ISO9001 certification under the guidance of QC Manager Chuck Childers, who joined the company in June 2006 to spearhead this effort. “Our goal to be certified within one year was very ambitious,” said Quantum President, Dan Patriarca. “It is not easy for a small company to go through this process while maintaining our productivity. We were successful because of Chuck’s dedication and the cooperation of everyone here at QCI.” See ISO Certicicate

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April, 2007

QCI acquires the Denton Coatings Group from Denton Vacuum, LLC “I am delighted to have the opportunity to acquire Denton Coatings”, said Quantum founder and President, Dan Partiarca. “We have enjoyed an excellent relationship with Denton over the years and we intend to maintain and grow their full product line, which is very complimentary to ours at QCI. This is truly a win-win situation: QCI gains an expanded customer base, diversified product line and a workforce with a wealth of technical experience. The Denton product line can take advantage of Quantum’s larger machine capacity, broader manufacturing expertise and enjoy opportunities for growth.”

In the fall, Quantum plans to move all operations to the Moorestown plant where they will be combined in a new coating facility within a Class 6 Clean Room.

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February, 2007

Denton Coatings has successfully completed the anti-reflection (AR) coatings on the Schmidt Corrector for the 0.95m high field of view photometer on the Kepler Mission. The corrector required specially designed broad band AR coatings that were resistant to radiation damage and had low reflectance over the wavelength range 400nm to 900nm and. The Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery mission, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to detect and characterize hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone. The habitable zone encompasses the distances from a star where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface. Results from this mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy. Launch is scheduled for February 2009. For more about Kepler, visit:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/about/

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