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Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails
Matthew F. Campbell, Pawan Kumar, Jason Lynch +11
Achieving laser-driven, reflective, relativistic light sails would represent a tremendous breakthrough for humankind, allowing us to advance our understanding of the solar system a…
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…
Controlled photophoretic levitation of nanostructured thin films for near-space flight
Mohsen Azadi, George A. Popov, Zhipeng Lu +5
We report light-driven levitation of macroscopic polymer films whose bottom surface is engineered to maximize the thermal accommodation coefficient. Specifically, we levitated cent…
Photophoretic Levitation of Macroscopic Nanocardboard Plates
John Cortes, Christopher Stanczak, Maanav Narula +4
Scaling down miniature rotorcraft and flapping-wing flyers to sub-centimeter dimensions is challenging due to complex electronics requirements, manufacturing limitations, and the i…