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A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery
Source: NASA Science | Date: July 1, 2025
ALLVAR’s negative thermal expansion Alloy 30 enables ultra-stable telescope structures for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, achieving near-zero thermal expansion in a hexapod structure tested at the University of Florida.
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Negative Thermal Expansion Alloy to Enable Stable Lenses for Exoplanet Hunting
Source: optics.org | Date: July 2, 2025
ALLVAR develops NTE alloys for NASA’s future space telescope optics, offering potential for ultra-stable structures in future missions like the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
NASA Tests Shrinking Metals to Help Find More Exoplanets
Source: The Register | Date: July 2, 2025
NASA explores ALLVAR’s Alloy 30, which shrinks when heated, to stabilize space telescopes and improve performance in bolted joints and infrared optics.
Negative Thermal Expansion Material Could Unlock the Mother of All Telescopes
Source: autoevolution | Date: July 2, 2025
ALLVAR Alloy 30, with a -30 ppm/°C CTE, promises up to 200 times better thermal stability for telescopes compared to traditional materials.
Alloy Offers Optics-Stabilizing Qualities, to Aid in Exoplanet Search
Source: Photonics Spectra| Date: July 8, 2025
ALLVAR has been working in collaboration with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to show how a material with negative thermal expansion characteristics can create ultra-stable telescope structures.
Press Releases
ALLVAR Awarded NASA SBIR Phase II Award
Source: ALLVAR | Date: May 20, 2022
ALLVAR receives NASA SBIR Phase II funding to study negative thermal expansion alloys for ultra-stable telescope applications, producing large-scale material property datasets. Read Press ReleaseMedia Contact
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