The main material in detail




Common requirements


The main material must be very strong, light, uv resistant, lightning dissipative and air or helium tight.



One example of the used material can be the follow:


1.) Carbon fibers lying on top of each other all in the same direction.

2.) A resin is added and graphene is also put in the resin.

3.) Sol-gel intermediate layer, e.g. TiO₂/SiO₂

4.) PVD(Physical Vapour Deposition) coating made from Al₂O₃

5.) For Helium tightness add a Parylene-AF4 with a thickness of 5 mikrometer

6.) For lightening protection a aluminium strip can be included or added



Fixed and flexible material


The material must be flexible or fix, to create a fix version, the numbers of the fibers must be increased and the line of the carbon fibers must be changed.