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C.S.L
Liege Science Park
Avenue du Pré-Aily
B-4031 ANGLEUR
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)4 3824600
Fax: +32 (0)4 3675613
www.csl.ulg.ac.be
CSL – Centre Spatial de Liège (BE)
… space is our inspiration
Eng. Joseph BERNIER
Industrial Cooperation
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CSL: Centre Spatial de Liège
Staff: ~ 85
60 % engineers & scientists
Test Centre for ESA and Industry
Research Centre of University of Liege
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What we do ?
Electronics
Space Environment
Tests
Surface
Engineering
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Signal
Processing
Technological
Partnerships
Quality
Lab
Optical Design
& Metrology NDT & Lasers
Test Facilities
Space
Instrumentation &
Sub-Systems
Thermo-
Mechanical
Design
Cryogenics
Process thematic (ERA Net / EUROSTARS)
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Space applications & Technology transfer
Advanced
technologies
Space
environment
Tests
(payloads)
Space
instrumentation
(development)
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
Other applications Space applications
ESA
Other Space
Agencies (NASA, …)
Space industry
Process thematic
(ERA Net/EUROSTARS)
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Technology transfer modes
Advanced
technologies
Space
environment
Tests (payloads)
Space
instrumentation
(development)
Spin-offs
Intellectual property
( licenses, …)
R&D projects
(industrial
partnerships)
Process thematic
(ERA Net EUROSTARS)
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What we do ?
TESTS IN SPACE CONDITIONS
Space environment
Tests (payloads)
Vacuum Low
temperatures
Vibrations
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Space environment Tests (payloads)
Vacuum Techniques
&
Low Temperatures
Space environment
Tests
(vacuum, cryogenic, vibrations)
Clean rooms:
• 10.000 class clean room (ISO 7 or M 5.5 in SI)
• 100 class available locally (ISO 5 or M 3.5 in SI)
Temperature controlled and regulated at 21 +/- 2 C
Relative humidity controlled and regulated at 55 +/-10 %
Lifting capabilities: 5.3 T/10T cranes with 7.72-m/12.43-m clearance
under hook
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Space environment Tests (payloads)
Vacuum Techniques
&
Low Temperatures
Space environment
Tests
(vacuum, cryogenic, vibrations) Vacuum Chambers :
• -> 250 m3
• 10-6 - 10-7 mbar
• 4K (pts 0,1 K)
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Space environment Tests (payloads)
Vacuum Techniques
&
Low Temperatures
Space environment
Tests
(vacuum, cryogenic, vibrations)
Vibrations : 2 shakers, on 3 axis under cryogenic and vacuum conditions (down to 15K).
• Frequencies : 5-3000 Hz
• Accelerations : 200 kN (200 G / 100 Kg)
• Maximum weight : 900kg - 1200kg
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Test Centre
Example: Planck satellite
Cooled down to -270 C (0.1 mK)
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What we do ?
Space instrumentation
Design, manufacturing and testing of scientific space instruments payload
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Space Instruments : examples
EIT (SOHO, 1995) FUV-SI (IMAGE, 2000)
OMC (INTEGRAL)
COROT Baffle & Cover
SWAP (PROBA-2)
HI (STEREO)
OM (Newton)
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Space Instrumentation : missions
XMM – OM (1999)
IMAGE – FUV/SI (2000)
INTEGRAL – OMC (2002)
COROT (2006)
STEREO – HI (2006)
Twin instruments
Herschel – PACS
(2009)
PROBA 2 – SWAP - LYRA
(2009)
SOHO-EIT (1995)
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What we do ?
Advanced
technologies
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
Solar Energy
Signal Processing
Thermal &
Mechanical design
Optical design
At a glance :
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Solar Energy (solar concentration)
High solar concentration Low solar concentration with reflectors
Space Experiment
PROBA 2
Direct
Illumination
Reflected
Illumination
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Signal Processing
PRE-PROCESSING
Broadcasted
SAR raw data
Focused
SAR images
Thematic
products
USER
POST-PROCESSING
Ground
Station
Cordoba
Redu? SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
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Signal Processing
Observations of the Earth using the SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) of the ERS
(Earth Resources Satellite) have a wide range of practical applications, such as:
•Wave forecasting & marine climatology
•Ice monitoring
•Mapping and monitoring of land use (forestry and agriculture)
•Biomass potential
•Elevation model, small surface movements detection (earthquakes, landslides or glacier
advancement)
•Security & defence ….
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Optical Design & Metrology
• Metrology and calibration
Dimensional metrology
Radiometric calibration
Optical Ground Support Equipment from X-rays to sub mm
Development of ground and flight optical metrology systems
Optical calibration of part or complete optical payloads
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Optical Design & Metrology
•Optical design & analysis
Straylight analysis
From small (IOL 6 mm) to large 6m Solar Simulator
to extra large
(100 m photon
sieves) optics
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Optical Design & Metrology Services
R&D support in optical field: sensors, image acquisition,
illumination devices, spectral analysis
Optical design, simulations, optimization (CODE V, ASAP, FRED,
IDL or Intelliwave)
Straylight analysis
Study of optical function working in severe environment
Prototyping,
Qualification for space environment
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Thermal & Mechanical Design
Thermal analysis for the thermal tent
50[K]
300[K]
ESATAN / ESARAD to model the global set-up with Planck S/C (simplified model)
• To define the best configuration
• To estimate the set-up influence
• heat fluxes analysis main contributors
• sensitivity analysis for critical parameters
• iterations till degradation wrt deep space
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Thermal & Mechanical Design
Critical points linked to thermal analysis:
Power budget passive cooling
Detector signal/noise ratio
Heat flux brought by sun irradiance
Optics Misalignment tolerances
Mirrors WFE in operational thermal range
Sun watcher using APS detectors and image processing
(SWAP)
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Thermal & Mechanical Design Services
(choice of material, geometry, environmental effect)
(2)
optiques
WSun
=800W/m²
+200W/m²
(1) plaque
fond
Qrad, 13
Qcond, 13 (3)
ambiant
e
Qrad, 12
Qrad, 23
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Qcond, 12
Qcond, 23
convecti
on échange
radiatif échange
convectif
Example : Thermal analysis
& prototype
for solar energy applications
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
Electronics
Surface
Engineering
NDT & Lasers
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Electronics Laboratory
CSL involvement in electronics
CSL involvement in software
Experience gained / standards applied
HERSCHEL/PACS
Electronics design, breadboards,
engineering model, supervision
of QM and FM contractor ( OIP ),
qualification tests
On board software ( real time motion control, data handling, Spacewire interfaces, on
board sequences, precision thermal control )
DSP, Real time software ( Virtuoso ), high speed data transfer ( Spacewire ), electronics at
4K, redundancy concepts, ECSS, flight FPGA development
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Electronics Laboratory Example of technology development Portable X-ray fluorescence coating
thickness measurement
Cu, Al, Mg, Ti, Cr, S, Ru, Au in the range 1 to 2000
nm with 3% accuracy
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Electronics Laboratory Services
Smart Sensors
Sensors Development
Selection / networking
Electronic design analog/digital
Power Supply
Data Transmission
Breadboards
Environmental Tests (including Radiations)
Downscaling
Example : Online cables health survey
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
Electronics
Surface
Engineering
NDT & Lasers
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Space background
• Application fields
• Optical components for
space applications
• Ground optical
instrumentation
• Light management
• Solar energy
• Sensors
• Connectics
Coatings/Thin Films
PACS Grating
MIRI Coatings
Surface process and micro–texturing
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Coatings/Thin Films
Participation to GAIA Program
Customer : TNO-TPD
Protective
reflective coating
applied on SiC
Surface process and micro–texturing Space background
Antireflective
coating on fused
silica -
Beamsplitting
coating for fused
silica
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Facilities
• Different deposition techniques
• Dual Ion Beam Sputtering
• RF & DC magnetron sputtering
• E-beam evaporation
• Thermal evaporation
• Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition
• Laser Induced Forward Transfer
• Spin coating
Coatings/Thin Films
LIFT
Surface process and micro–texturing
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Technologies
• Local removal of materials
• Controlled with interferometry
• Control of induced roughness
Ion Beam Figuring
Surface process and micro–texturing
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Surface process and micro–texturing Technologies
Deposition chamber and dry plasma etching
developed at CSL
CSL owns different technologies for surface texturing: laser ablation, ion beam,
photolithography (holography and direct laser writing) coupled with transfer
processes by dry or wet etching.
Holographic
recording
bench
developed
by CSL
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Replication
Hot embossing system
Replication process Insert technology
Process development for
industrial production of
micro-patterned
components
Surface process and micro–texturing
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Metrology
• Structural & Optical properties
• Scanning Electron Microscope
• Atomic Force Microscope
• Optical Profiler
• Interferometers
• Spectrophotometers
• Ellipsometers
Surface Characterization
Surface process and micro–texturing
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Surface Process and micro–texturing
Examples of optical structures produced and / or replicated at CSL
Replication of antireflection structures using infrared holographic recording
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Structures examples Surface Process and micro–texturing
Diffraction grating etched in fused silica
3 µm
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Surface Process and micro–texturing
Phase mask etched by plasma in ZnSe (recording laser direct writing)
10 µm
Structures examples
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Surface Process and micro–texturing Structures examples
Structures induced by ion
beam in a metal coating
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Surface Process and micro–texturing Structures examples
Replication of butterfly wing
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Surface Process and micro–texturing Technology Transfer
Objective: optimizing the extraction of light in Organic Light Emitting
Diodes (OLED) Partners : ARCELOR, FUNDP, RTECH, MATERIA NOVA, CRMM, BCT and MONS-
HAINAUT University
Development of flexible encapsulation method allowing optimization of
outcoupling and angular distribution of emitted light.
Organic-electro-luminescent diode
(OLED) developed by Mirage
consortium
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Surface Process and micro–texturing
Example of principal replication steps of the optical area of an Intra Ocular Lens
Industrial partners: NANOSHAPE, OPTIM, OPEN
ENGINEERING and LAMBDA-X
PHYSIOL : market of intraocular lenses for the
cataract surgery
Technology Transfer
CSL : optical design, metrology and
micro-structures replication
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Surface Process and micro–texturing
PLASMOBIO
Technology Transfer
Advanced microtechnologies for biological instrumentation
INTERREG Project
Objective: to develop sensitive, miniaturized
and integrated SPR-based biosensors
allowing in-situ and remote biosensing
applications needed in the medical
diagnostic field.
Surface Plasmonic Resonance, SPR, is a powerful tool for
label-free and real time analysis of molecular interactions
Working principle of SPR sensor applied to droplet microfluidic
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
Electronics
Surface
Engineering
NDT & Lasers
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing
• Dimensional Measurements
• Stereocorrelation measurement system
• Existing software
• Optical systems developed by CSL
• Static-Low speed measurements
• Dynamic measurement (on shaker)
Deployment of space membrane structures Wrinkle measurement
Numerical correlation of 2 images
taken by 2 cameras
Allows measurement of
displacement of large number of
points randomly attached (sprayed)
or projected on the surface
Typical volume measured : 130x100x80 mm3 (resolution 90 µm)
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing
Deformation Measurements • High resolution holographic camera
• Full-field displacement measurement
Photorefractive holographic recording medium
In-situ recording
Erasable– indefinitely reusable
Green Laser (532 nm)
Displacement range : 0.15 µm - 25 µm
Non contact – Full Field
CSL pursues various developments around this
technology
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing • Coupling deformation and temperature measurement on unique sensor – Infrared speckle
interferometry
CO2 Laser (10.6 µm)
Non contact – Full field
Displacement range : 1 µm - 150 µm
Thermal camera used for simultaneous
• hologram capture
• thermogram capture
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing
Example of technology development LIBS : Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing
Example of technology development LIBS : Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Analysis of elements present in plasma
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Lasers & Non Destructive Testing Services
R & D support in material non destructive testing (optical method)
Selection of control techniques
Dedicated test set-up for industrial end-user
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NDT for Composites exam : # techniques
Laser Ultrasounds :
Holography / Shearography VibroThermography Optical pulse Thermography
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Centre Spatial de Liège
Liege Science Park,
Avenue du Pré-Aily
B-4031 – ANGLEUR (Belgium)
tel. +32.4.382.46.00
fax. +32.4.367.56.13
http://www.csl.ulg.ac.be
Joseph BERNIER : [email protected]
CONTACTS
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION