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Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty

Microfabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We present the modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new generation ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

A ToF-MS with a Highly Efficient Electrostatic Ion Guide for Characterization of Ionic Liquid Electrospray Sources

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty, Daniel George Courtney

We report on the development of a time-of-flight (ToF) mass spectrometer with a highly efficient electrostatic ion guide for enhancing detectability in ToF mass spectrometry. This 65-cm long ion guide consists of 13 cascaded stages of Einzel lens to collec ...

Springer2014

A dual-axis pointing mirror with moving-magnet actuation

Nico de Rooij, Wilfried Noell, Caglar Ataman, Sébastien Lani

A large-aperture and large-angle MEMS-based 2D pointing mirror is presented. The device is electromagnetically actuated by a moving-magnet/stationary-coil pair and potentially suited for high power laser beam shaping and beam pointing applications, such as ...

Institute of Physics2013

A robust platform for textile integrated gas sensors

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Jérôme Courbat, Caglar Ataman, Francisco Molina Lopez, Giorgio Mattana, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

Fabrication, textile integration and post-weaving characterization of a robust platform for monolithically integrated, low-power gas and temperature sensing are presented. The platform, consisting of an interdigitated planar capacitor for gas sensing and a ...

Elsevier2013

Thermal Characterization of Polycrystalline CVD Diamond Thin Films

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Wilfried Noell, Caglar Ataman, Sébastien Lani

An experimental thermal characterization method is developed for high thermal conductivity thin films. The method utilizes Ta/Pt resistors on microfabricated free-standing thin film structures both for heating and temperature monitoring at different positi ...

Elsevier Science, Reg Sales Off, Customer Support Dept, 655 Ave Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Compact Fourier transform spectrometers using FR4 platform

Caglar Ataman

A novel magnetic actuated polymer optical platform is integrated into lamellar grating and Michelson type Fourier transform spectrometers. The proposed advantages of the novel platform over existing approaches, such as MEMS spectrometers, or bulky FTIR sys ...

2009