Solid propellants are used in various flight and underwater systems as well as in propulsion platforms. Micromachining, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and automatic dispensing of high-energy-density nanoenergetic materials are examined for current and next generation of application-specific flight and underwater platforms. The integrated MEMS-technology microthrusters with the optimized-by-design nanostructured propellants ensure the expected thrust-to-weight and thrust-to-power ratios, specific impulse, effective exhaust velocity, thrust, energy density, controlled combustion, etc. The flight-proven propulsion and micromachining technologies are suitable in a wide range of applications, such as payload delivery, stabilization, guidance, navigation, etc. Compared with mono- and bi-propellant, ion, laser, plasma, Hall-effect and other thrusters, our solution ensures fabrication simplicity, affordability, robustness, integration, compatibility, safety, etc. The experimental substantiation, evaluation and characterization of fabricated proof-of-concept devices with nanoenergetic propellants are reported.


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    Title :

    MEMS microthrusters with nanoenergetic solid propellants




    Publication date :

    2014-08-01


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    974841 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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