Members of the lab attended and helped to host the 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They wrote about and presented portions of the lab’s ongoing research into the development of microfabricated electrospray thrusters. The works include pieces on modeling of electrospray physics, new designs and materials for thrusters, characterization methods for electrospray thrusters, and more. The individual papers can be found below:
- Thrust Inference for Ionic-Liquid Electrospray Thrusters on a Magnetically-Levitating Thrust Balance
- Characterization of a Single-Polarity Electrospray Propulsion System
- Investigating Prompt Ionic Liquid Cluster Fragmentation from Electrospray Total Mass Flow Measurements
- Performance Measurement and Propellant Testing for the STEP-1 CubeSat Electrospray Thrusters
- An Electrowetting Flow Controller for Ion Electrospray Propulsion Systems
- The Current Emitted by Ionic Liquid Ion Sources in the Pure-Ionic Regime
- Densification of Ionic Liquid Electrospray Thrusters using Silicon-Based MEMS Fabrication
- Investigating Variations in Startup Emission Across a Passively Fed Porous Electrospray Thruster
- Electroactive Polymer Emitters for Electrospray Propulsion