Designed polymers for laser-based microthrusters - Correlation of thrust with material, plasma, and shockwave properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5448, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 52-64

  Urech, L ^a   Hauer, M ^a   Lippert, T ^a   Phipps, C R ^b   Schmid, E ^a   Wokaun, A ^a   Wysong, I ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c Europ Off Aerosp Res and Devmt   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LASER ABLATION; LASERS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PLASMA DEVICES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SHOCK WAVES;

LASER-MATERIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROPROPULSION DEVICES; PLASMA TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE PLATFORMS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 11844287676     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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