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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.…
3D photophoretic aircraft made from ultralight porous materials can carry kg-scale payloads in the mesosphere
Thomas Celenza, Andy Eskenazi, Igor Bargatin
We show that photophoretic aircraft would greatly benefit from a three-dimensional (3D) hollow geometry that pumps ambient air through sidewalls to create a high-speed jet. To iden…