Company Profile

ABOUT SST, INC.

In 1996, SST (Sunlite Science & Technology, Inc.) was founded in California as an LED chip and wafer manufacturing company. In its early years, SST used Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) technology to fabricate LED chips that were sold to assembly companies. In 2000, SST won the Competitive Award from the Kansas Enterprises Technology Corporation to develop Aluminum-Indium-Gallium-Phosphide (AlInGaP) High Brightness LED (HB-LED) products using MOCVD’s.

Armed with expertise in LED chip manufacturing, SST began to design and package its own LED and Laser products in 2004. SST started its UV LED adhesive curing unit in 2005. SST utilizes its patented application-specific LED (AS LED) technology and vertical integration in its manufacturing process and controls all aspects of its LED and Laser product design and production.

In 2013, SST partnered with a major ink and coatings manufacturer to provide production environment field testing of a patented new LED curing system designed for curing inks. The developed UV LED Curing System utilizes the Patented COLDCURE LED technology. It represents the most efficient UV-LED system on the market, new or retrofit. The SST COLDCURE LED Curing system can be used for printing on shrink film without the need of a substrate chilling or LED chip chilling system.

Comparing to traditional UV LED curing system, which place their packaged LED chips on a Metal Core Printed Circuit Board (MC-PCB) and use a flat secondary lens, SST’s COLDCURE LED design places the LED chips directly onto a heat sink and uses single domed quartz lens to reduce energy lost to internal reflection.

SST’s LED Curing Systems are Designed, Engineered and Manufactured in Kansas.

SST has 21,000 sq. ft. of office, R&D, manufacturing, and warehouse space.

SST is proud to continually innovate and design products for a variety of unique applications. In 2015 SST’s proposal to design Switching Electronics for Space-based Telescopes with Advanced Adaptive Optic (AO) Systems was selected for a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Award. After Phase I was successfully completed, SST continued Phase II to design and fabricate two 32 X 32 switch arrays from 2016 to 2018. In 2019, SST’s proposed “Linear Regulators for Efficiently Driving a Deformable Mirror” was again selected for a NASA SBIR Phase I Award. After Phase I was successfully completed, SST was awarded SBIR Phase II Award in 2020. In 2023 SST was approved for a NASA-SBIR Phase I project regarding radiation Resistance Enhanced Class AB Amplifiers for Space Corona-graphic Instruments.