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Scalable reflective communication for microscopic electronics
Matthew F. Campbell, Kyle Skelil, Chaitanya Karimanasseri +6
Untethered microscopic electronic circuits hold the potential for extraordinary advances in many fields such as neural transmitting and distributed sensing. However, establishing u…
Low-Power Solar Sail Control using In-Plane Forces from Tunable Buckling of Kirigami Films
Gulzhan Aldan, Igor Bargatin
We present a proof-of-concept study showing that buckled aluminized polyimide films perforated with millimeter-scale cuts can redirect normally incident light obliquely and generat…
Kirigami Film Reflector for Deployable Space Antennas
Gulzhan Aldan, Henry Love, Matthew Campbell +2
We propose a low-pretension reflective kirigami film as a material for the reflective surfaces of large deployable space reflector antennas with an operating frequency around 10 GH…
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…
Numerical and Experimental Study on the Addition of Surface Roughness to Micro-Propellers
Justin P Cooke, Matthew F Campbell, Edward B Steager +3
Micro aerial vehicles are making a large impact in applications such as search-and-rescue, package delivery, and recreation. Unfortunately, these diminutive drones are currently co…
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.…
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…
Multi-scale photonic emissivity engineering for relativistic lightsail thermal regulation
John Brewer, Matthew F. Campbell, Pawan Kumar +4
The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative aims to send a gram-scale probe to Proxima Centuri B using a laser-accelerated lightsail traveling at relativistic speeds. Thermal management i…
Relativistic light sails need to billow
Matthew F. Campbell, John Brewer, Deep Jariwala +2
We argue that light sails that are rapidly accelerated to relativistic velocities by lasers must be significantly curved in order to reduce their mechanical stresses and avoid tear…
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…