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physics.app-ph2023
Photophoretic Light-flyers with Germanium Coatings as Selective Absorbers
Zhipeng Lu, Gulzhan Aldan, Danielle Levin +2
The goal of ultrathin lightweight photophoretic flyers, or light-flyers for short, is to levitate continuously in Earth's upper atmosphere using only sunlight for propulsive power.…
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Minimizing the Ground Effect for Photophoretically Levitating Disks
Zhipeng Lu, Miranda Stern, Jinqiao Li +6
Photophoretic levitation is a propulsion mechanism in which lightweight objects can be lifted and controlled through their interactions with light. Since photophoretic forces on ma…