Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jets are a highly promising technology for the generation of
three-dimensional micro-and nanoscale structures, but the advancement of this technology …

Performance and lifetime analysis of electrospray thrusters requires accurate knowledge of
the mass and charge distributions of the plume. Mass flux and current density distributions …

Ionic liquid electrosprays can emit a polydisperse population of charged droplets, clusters,
and molecular ions at high velocity. Secondary species emission (SSE) is a term that …

Electrospray thruster life and mission performance are strongly influenced by grid
impingement, the extent of which can be correlated with emission modes that occur at …

Electrospray devices, such as ionic liquid ion sources, often exhibit glows during operation
in high vacuum facilities. The lack of electron excitation mechanisms during electrospray …

Orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometry has been used to characterize the kinetic
energy and charged species distributions from an in vacuo electrospray ion source for four …

Ionic size and hydrogen bonding (HB) may play significant roles in controlling ion emission
from HAN (hydroxylamine nitrate)-based ionic liquids (ILs) but have received little attention …

To better characterize the lifetime and performance of electrospray thrusters, electron
emission due to electrode impingement by the propellant cation 1-ethyl-3 …

The physics of ionic electrospray propulsion spans multiple length scales. This paper
combines a molecular dynamics model, a particle–particle model, and a particle-in-cell …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3439. vid Multimode propulsion is
the combination of two or more propulsive modes into a system that shares a single …