Micro initiators as the fundamental building blocks of micro energetic systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6556, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Desai, Amish ^a   Fuchs, Brian ^b  

^a Tanner Research Inc   (United States)

^b US Army ARDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridgewire; Exploding foil initiators; Explosive initiators; MEMS; Micro energetics; Micro thrusters

Indexed keywords

BRIDGEWIRE; EXPLODING FOIL INITIATORS; EXPLOSIVE INITIATORS; MICRO ENERGETICS; MICRO THRUSTERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; HYPERSONIC FLOW; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MEMS; PHASE COMPOSITION;

MICROSYSTEMS;

EID: 35948959390     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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