More Info on Deposition Sciences Inc (DSI)

(DSI®), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, is a premier supplier of Advanced Materials and Thin Film Coatings. Located in Santa Rosa, CA, our talented workforce provides the world’s best thin film optical coatings, products and services.

Our products include Sunshade thermal control material, space qualified materials and coatings, flexible sputtered coatings, ESD materials, beamsplitters, absorption coatings, aperture coatings, band pass filters, dark mirror coatings, cold mirrors, notch filters, long wave pass filter coatings, short wave pass filter coatings, edge/dichroic beamsplitters and custom thin film coatings.

Introducing Sunshade Tape as a flexible optical solar reflector (FOSR) for space applications.

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Deposition Sciences, Inc.: Advanced Materials & Thin-Film Coatings

Aug. 26, 2025

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May 22, 2023

DSI's (VLWIR) Very Long Wavelength IR Filters & Low Temp. Shift IR Coatings

March 12, 2013

Products

DSI Sunshade’s tape version allows for easy peel & stick thermal control.

Optical coatings/treatments

Sunshade Free Film

Sunshade is the world’s best thermal control material with ESD and RF transmissive performance. Sunshade is now available in free film or tape versions. It is offered...

DSI’s Flexible Optical Solar Reflector (FOSR) solution, Sunshade Tape.

Optical coatings/treatments

Sunshade FOSR

Our Sunshade Tape is a breakthrough alternative. Engineered to withstand the harsh realities of in-orbit environments, this next-generation technology has equivalent optical properties...

Optical filters

Dichroic Edge Pass Filters

Edge filters, also sometimes called dichroic filters, are coatings that include short wave pass and long wave pass filters. Specifically, these coatings transmit one range of ...

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Optics

Beamsplitters

A Plate beamsplitter is a planar optic used to divide incoming light into reflected and transmitted components with a specified, constant intensity ratio over a given wavelength...

Optical coatings/treatments

Dark Mirror Coatings

Absorption coatings absorb incident light, rather than reflecting or transmitting it. Thus, they simultaneously exhibit both the low transmittance of a metal blocking filter and...

Optics

Flexible Sputtered Coatings

Gone are the days of designing a system exclusively around traditional, flat, and rigid optical shapes. Advances in optical coatings and coating processes enable optical design...

Press Releases

Optical coatings/treatments

AO-Resistant Material Boosts VLEO Satellite Longevity

Sunshade® Tape for Thermal Control October 2025 - Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, specializes in advanced materials and optical...