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Caglar Ataman
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A ToF-MS with a Highly Efficient Electrostatic Ion Guide for Characterization of Ionic Liquid Electrospray Sources
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty
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 ...
Springer2014Microfabricated 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 Ltd2014Woven Temperature and Humidity Sensors on Flexible Plastic Substrates for E-Textile Applications
Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Caglar Ataman, Jinyu Jason Ruan, Francisco Molina Lopez, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana, Giovanni Nisato, David Leuenberger
In this paper, a woven textile containing temperature and humidity sensors realized on flexible, plastic stripes is presented. The authors introduce two different sensors fabrication techniques: the first one consists of a conventional photolithography pat ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013A robust platform for textile integrated gas sensors
Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Caglar Ataman, Jérôme Courbat, Francisco Molina Lopez, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana
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 ...
Elsevier2013Design and fabrication of the thruster heads for the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray propulsion system
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty
Microfabricated electrospray thrusters are widely acknowledged as one of the most promising technologies for the propulsion of small spacecraft. Their relative simplicity, high efficiency (> 70%), low footprint (M < 500g, V < 10cm3) and large potential spe ...
2013Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty
This paper describes the experimental progress towards an operational microfabricated electrospray thruster, as part of the EU FP7 “MicroThrust” Project. Microfabrication of an electrospray multiplexed thruster allows the seamless manufacturing of arrays o ...
2013A dual-axis pointing mirror with moving-magnet actuation
Nico de Rooij, Caglar Ataman, Wilfried Noell, 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 Physics2013Development of a ToF setup with an ion - guide for characterization of electrospray microthrusters
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty
Electrospray microthrusters are a very promising micro-propulsion system which can potentially provide very high specific impulse (Isp ~ 3000s). In this paper, we report on the development of a time-of-flight (ToF) measurement setup for characterization of ...
2013Progress Towards a Miniaturized Electrospray Thruster for Propulsion of Small Spacecraft
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Subha Chakraborty
Miniaturized electrical thrusters based on electrospray (or colloid) emitters could rev- olutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1-100 kg). We report on our recent advances in the deve ...
2012Development of the MicroThrust Breadboard: A Miniaturized Electric Propulsion System for Nanosatellites
Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Muriel Richard
Since 2008, the MicroThrust (MT) consortium consisting of EPFL, Nanospace, QMUL, SystematIC, and TNO has been working on the development of a MEMS based electric propulsion system. Since 2010, the work has been performed as part of the European Union’s FP7 ...
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