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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2022
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Tianli Zhu, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Richard Wesley Jackson, III, Mystic, CT (US);
John A. Sharon, West Hartford, CT (US);
James T. Beals, West Hartford, CT (US);
Brian T. Hazel, Avon, CT (US);
RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine component having a substrate; a thermal barrier coating on the substrate having a porous microstructure; and a reflective layer conforming to the porous microstructure of the thermal barrier coating, wherein the reflective layer comprises a conforming nanolaminate defined by alternating layers of platinum group metal materials selected from the group consisting of platinum group metal-based alloys, platinum group metal intermetallic compounds, mixtures of platinum group metal with metal oxides and combinations thereof. A capping layer can be added over the reflective layer. A supporting layer can be added between the reflective layer and the thermal barrier coating. A process is also disclosed.