3 papers
physics.app-ph2025
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…
physics.app-ph2025
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…
physics.app-ph2020
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…