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Self-referencing photothermal common-path interferometry to measure absorption of Si3N4 membranes for laser-light sails
Tanuj Kumar, Demeng Feng, Shenwei Yin +12
Laser-light sails are a spacecraft concept wherein lightweight "sails" are propelled by high-intensity lasers. We investigated the near-infrared absorption of free-standing membran…
The Effect of Dust and Hotspots on the Thermal Stability of Laser Sails
Gabriel R. Jaffe, Gregory R. Holdman, Min Seok Jang +3
Laser sails propelled by gigawatt-scale ground-based laser arrays have the potential to reach relativistic speeds, traversing the solar system in hours and reaching nearby stars in…
Thermal runaway of silicon-based laser sails
Gregory R. Holdman, Gabriel R. Jaffe, Min Seok Jang +3
Laser sail-based spacecraft -- where a powerful earth-based laser propels a lightweight outer-space vehicle -- have been recently proposed by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative a…
A Simple Numerical Method for Evaluating Heat Dissipation from Curved Wires with Periodic Applied Heating
Gabriel R. Jaffe, Victor W. Brar, Max G. Lagally +1
In many situations, the dual-purpose heater/thermometer wires used in the three-omega method, one of the most precise and sensitive techniques for measuring the thermal conductivit…
Long Phonon Mean Free Paths Observed in Cross-plane Thermal-Conductivity Measurements of Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Gabriel R. Jaffe, Keenan J. Smith, Kenji Watanabe +4
Sub-micron-thick layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit high in-plane thermal conductivity, useful optical properties, and serve as dielectric encapsulation layers with lo…
Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Raymond A. Wambold, Zhaoning Yu, Yuzhe Xiao +7
We designed a nanoscale light extractor (NLE) for efficient outcoupling and beaming of broadband light emitted by shallow, negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in bulk…
Three-Omega Thermal-Conductivity Measurements with Curved Heater Geometries
Gabriel R. Jaffe, Keenan J. Smith, Victor W. Brar +2
The three-omega method, a powerful technique to measure the thermal conductivity of nanometer-thick films and the interfaces between them, has historically employed straight conduc…