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Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

Herbert Shea, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney

Electric propulsion systems using electrospray ion sources are a scalable and high specific impulse technology which could enable small spacecraft to perform high ΔV missions. This paper presents an overview of a recently developed source design which achi ...

2015

Influences of porous reservoir Laplace pressure on emissions from passively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources

Herbert Shea, Daniel George Courtney

Passively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources are capable of efficiently emitting a variety of ion beams with promising applications to spacecraft propulsion and as focused ion beams. Practical devices will require integrated or coupled ionic liquid rese ...

American Institute of Physics2015

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

Design 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 ...

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Experimental 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 ...

2013

Wafer-level integrated electrospray emitters for a pumpless microthruster system operating in high efficiency ion-mode

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino

Microfabrication, wafer-level integration, and characterization of internally fed arrays of electrospray thrusters for spacecraft propulsion are discussed. 5 μm inner diameter, 100 μm long capillaries and 150-to-300 μm diameter annular extractor electrodes ...

Ieee2012

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A multielectrode setup for protein OFFGEL electrophoresis that significantly improves protein separation efficiency has been developed. Here, the electric field is applied by segments between seven electrodes connected in series to six independent power su ...

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Micromachined electrospray thrusters for spacecraft propulsion

Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

Influences of porous reservoir Laplace pressure on emissions from passively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources

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

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Rotational propulsion enabled by inertia

Design and fabrication of the thruster heads for the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray propulsion system

Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system

Wafer-level integrated electrospray emitters for a pumpless microthruster system operating in high efficiency ion-mode

Segmented Field OFFGEL® Electrophoresis

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Performance and Applications of Ionic Electrospray Micro-Propulsion Prototypes

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

Rotational propulsion enabled by inertia

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Design and fabrication of the thruster heads for the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray propulsion system

Segmented Field OFFGEL® Electrophoresis

Influences of porous reservoir Laplace pressure on emissions from passively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources

Wafer-level integrated electrospray emitters for a pumpless microthruster system operating in high efficiency ion-mode

Experimental progress towards the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray electric propulsion system