A fully integrated microfabricated externally wetted electrospray thruster

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1731-1738

  Gassend, B ^a,b,c   Velasquez Garcia L F ^a,c   Akinwande, A I ^a,b,c   Martinez Sanchez M ^a,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPRAY PROPULSION; ELECTROSPRAY THRUSTER ARRAYS; ELECTROSPRAY THRUSTERS;

CHARGED PARTICLES; DROPS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION;

EID: 36749091237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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