Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

S Dandavino, C Ataman, CN Ryan… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Microfabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by
providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We …

Capillary ionic liquid electrospray: beam compositional analysis by orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometry

SW Miller, JR Ulibarri-Sanchez, BD Prince… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
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 liquids in electrospray propulsion systems

BD Prince, BA Fritz, YH Chiu - Ionic Liquids: Science and …, 2012 - ACS Publications
This chapter provides a brief introduction to the use of ionic liquids in electric space
propulsion systems. Pertinent performance parameters and recent advances in the use of …

Electrospray of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide under variable flow rate operations

SW Miller, BD Prince, RJ Bemish… - Journal of Propulsion and …, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
The ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide ([Bmim][DCA]) is a propellant
candidate for a standalone electrospray thruster or a dual-mode propulsion system …

Thermal‐and collision‐induced dissociation studies of functionalized imidazolium‐based ionic liquid cations

M De Silva, AC Brown, AL Patrick - Journal of Mass …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ionic liquids are now used in applications ranging from chemical synthesis to spacecraft
propulsion. With this comes the need to characterize new syntheses, identify environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometry of an ion beam with a broad kinetic energy profile

SW Miller, BD Prince, RJ Bemish - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A combined experimental and modeling effort is undertaken to assess a detection system
composed of an orthogonal extraction time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer coupled to a …

Mass spectrometry of selected ionic liquids in capillary electrospray at nanoliter volumetric flow rates

SW Miller, BD Prince, RJ Bemish… - 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
LECTROSPRAY thrusters constitute a class of micro-electric propulsion systems that use an
electric field to evaporate and accelerate an ionic propellant to generate thrust. This class of …

Species measurements in the beam of an ionic liquid ferrofluid electrospray source

KJ Terhune, LB King, M Hause, B Prince… - 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE …, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
ONODOMAIN magnetic nanoparticles suspended in a carrier liquid produce a colloid that is
susceptible to electromagnetic fields. The nanoparticles are coated in a polymer surfactant …

The effects of magnetic surface stress on electrospray of an ionic liquid ferrofluid

KJ Terhune, LB King, BD Prince, N Jain… - 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
PPLYING a strong electrostatic stress to the interface of a conductive or dielectric liquid
creates an instability in the surface. If the stress is sufficiently large to balance the …

A brief review of diagnostics for electrospray propulsion

CT Lyne, MF Liu, J Rovey - AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0263. vid We review common
experimental techniques used in electrospray propulsion, including the direct measurement …