Microfluidics research in MEMS propulsion systems

41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ketsdever, Andrew D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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