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most citedTwo Approaches for the Passive Charge Management of Contactless Test Masses

7 citations · 7 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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gr-qc2025

Long-wavelength UV-LEDs and charge management in the detection of gravitational waves in space

Yuandong Jia, Yinbowen Zhang, Suwen Wang +8

For the charge management system in gravitational wave detection missions, a continuous discharge strategy is considered by continuously illuminating a test mass (TM) with weak lig…

physics.ins-det2025

A Passive UV-Based System for Discharging the Test Masses of Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors

Saps Buchman, Suwen Wang, Shallendar Saraf

We present a passive ultraviolet charge management system for the fused silica test masses in ground-based laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. The system uses photo…

physics.ins-det2025

Test mass charge management in the detection of gravitational waves in space based on UV micro-LED

Yuandong Jia, Zhihao Zhang, Yinbowen Zhang +10

As an alternative to the ultraviolet light emitting diode(UV LED), the feasibility of utilizing UV micro-LED in the charge management in the detection of gravitational waves in spa…

physics.space-ph2022

Flight and ground demonstration of reproducibility and stability of photoelectric properties for passive charge management using LEDs

S. Buchman, T. S. M. Al Saud, A. Alfauwaz +7

Charges as small as 1 pC degrade the performance of high precision inertial reference instruments when accumulated on their test masses (TMs). Non-contact charge management systems…

physics.space-ph2021★ 7 cited

Two Approaches for the Passive Charge Management of Contactless Test Masses

S. Wang, S. Saraf, J. Lipa +2

Free floating Test Masses (TM) of inertial reference instruments accumulate charge mainly through the triboelectric effect during separation from their housings and, if in the spac…