Solar Sails: Controllable Propulsion by Light: Steering a Solar Sail via Tunable Radiation Pressure (Advanced Optical Materials 4/2017)

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• 作者：Dakang Ma ; Joseph Murray and Jeremy N. Munday
• 刊名：Advanced Optical Materials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 16, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：5
• 期：4
• 全文大小：3377K
• ISSN：2195-1071

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Solar sails represent a novel space propulsion technology based on radiation pressure; however, steering and actuation typically require traditional propellants or fuel. In article number 1600668, Dakang Ma, Joseph Murray, and Jeremy N. Munday describe the use of a reflectivity control device based on a polymer dispersed liquid crystal, which enables propellant-less attitude control through reflectivity modulation via an applied voltage.