Published Papers

Stretched Lens Array Papers

A SEP Mission To Jupiter Using The Stretched Lens Array

Stretched Lens Array (SLA): A Proven And Affordable Solution To Spacecraft Charging In GEO

The Stretched Lens Aarray's Testing And Mission Success In Harsh Environments

Stretched Lens Solar Array: The Best Choice for Harsh Orbits

From Imagination Toward Reality: The Stretched Lens Array's Journey To Mission Success

The Stretched Lens Solar Array for Mars Surface Power

Stretched Lens Array Technology Experiment (SLATE)

Stretched Lens Array: The Answer To Improving Solar Array Reliability

Stretched Lens Array (SLA), A Reliable Solar Array for Any Orbit

On the Performance and Space Reliability of the Stretched Lens Array

Overcoming Solar Array Anomalies With the Stretched Lens Array (SLA)

Stretched Lens Array SquareRigger (SLASR): A Unique New Technology For Space Power

Ultralight, Compact, Deployable, High-Performance Solar Concentrator Array for Lunar Surface Power

Update For The Stretched Lens Array SquareRigger (SLASR) For Space

Solar Papers

Solar Array Reliability In Satellite Operations

Reliability and Cost Reduction of Solar Arrays for GEO Satellites

Evolution of Space Solar Cell And Array Technology for the Next Decade

Generation and recombination carrier lifetimes in 4H SiC epitaxial wafers

Improved Schottky Contacts to N-type 4H-SiC Using ZrB₂ Deposited at High Temperatures

Performance Projections for Solar Array Power Options on the Lunar Surface

The Radiation Tolerance of Si/SiGe n-MODFETs

Space Solar Array Reliability: A Study and Recommendations

Improving Space Utilization by Increasing Solar Array Reliability (Abstract)

Improving Space Utilization by Increasing Solar Array Reliability

Prospector XII – Space Solar Array Cost Reduction Workshop

A Solar Electric Propulsion Mission with Lunar Power Beaming

POSS ® Coatings as Replacement for Solar Cell Cover Glasses

Impact Of Solar Array Designs On High Voltage Ooperation In Space

The Past, Present And Future Of Space Photovoltaics

Radiation Analysis

Durability Of The SLA In High Voltage, High Radiation Environments

Radiation Resistance and Reliability of the Stretched Lens Array (SLA) in Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Missions

Advances in Radiation-Tolerant Solar Arrays for SEP Missions

Solar Array Comparisons for High Radiation Environments

Stirling Converter Papers

Free-Piston Stirling Convertor Technology for Military and Space Applications

Update on Development of a Control System for a 5 Kilowatt Free Piston Stirling Engine Convertor

New 5 Kilowatt Free-Piston Stirling Space Convertor Developments

Development of a 5 kW Free-Piston Stirling Space Convertor

Evidence of Negative Bias Temperature Instability in 4H-SiC Metal Oxide Semiconductor Capacitors

Electron capture and emission at interface states in As-oxidized and NO-annealed SiO₂/4H-SiC

High Frequency Inversion Capacitance Measurements for 6H-SiC n-MOS Capacitors from 450 to 600°C

Future NASA Multi-kilowatt Free Piston Stirling Applications

A Liquid Sheet Radiator for a Lunar Stirling Power System

Ammonia Transformation Papers

Ammonia – It’s Transformation and Effective Utilization

Energy –the U.S. and World –and Carbon…

Plasma Blasting Papers

Pulsed Powered Plasma Blasting for Lunar Materials Processing

A Low Power Approach for Processing Lunar Materials

Hypervelocity Impact Papers

Hypervelocity Impact testing of Streched Lens Array Modules

Characterization of Hypervelocity Impact Craters on
Chemical Vapour-Deposited Diamond and Diamondlike
Carbon Films

Hypervelocity Impact Testing of Space Station Freedom Solar Cells

A Gun for Hire

Hypervelocity Impact Facility for Simulating the Effects of Space Debris Over a Wide Range of Conditions

Hypervelocity Impact Experiments on Aerogel Dust Collector

A Plasma Drag Hypervelocity Particle Accelerator

Hypervelocity Impact Studies of High Voltage Solar Array Segments

Secondary Ion Mass Spectometer (SIMS) Analysis of Hypervelocity Micorpaticle Impact Sites on LDEF Surfaces

Sunshield meteoroid impact test and analysis requirements definition

The Effect of Impact Angle on Craters Formed by Hypervelocity Particles

Hypervelocity Impact Study: The Effect of Impact Angle on Crater Morphology

Hypervelocity Impact Induced Arcing and Kapton Pyrolization in a Plasma Environment

Hypervelocity Impact Tests on Polycrystalline Diamond Deposited
Over Silicon Substrates

Computer Models of Micrometeoroid Impacts on Fused Silica Glass Mirrors

Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Papers

A "Probe Lift" MOS Capacitor Technique for Measuring Very Low Oxide Leakage Currents and Their Effect on Generation Lifetime Extraction

Thermally Stable Schottky Contacts on n-type GaN Using ZrB₂

Evidence of Negative Bias Temperature Instability in 4H-SiC Metal Oxide Semiconductor Capacitors

Charge Bursts Through Dielectric Layers of 4H-SiC/SiO₂ Metal Oxide Semiconductor Capacitors

Electron Capture and Emission Properties of Interface States in Thermally Oxided and NO-Annealed SiO₂/4H-SiC

Electron Capture and Emssion at Interface States in As-Oxidized and NO-Annealed SiO₂/4H-SiC

Generation and Recombination Carrier Lifetimes in 4H SiC Epitaxial Wafers

High Frequecy Inversion Capacitance Measurements for 6H-SiC n-MOS Capacitors from 450 to 600 ^oC

High Temperature Reliability of SiC n-MOS Devices up to 630 ^oC

Improved Schottky Contacts on n-Type 4H-SiC Using ZrB₂ Depositing at High Temperatures

Nitrogen and Hydrogen Induced Trap Passivation at the SiO₂/ 4H-SiC Interface

Poss Coatings as Replacements for Solar Cell Cover Glasses

Si-SiO₂ and SiC-SiO₂ Interfaces for MOSFETs – Challenges and Advances

The Effects of Proton Irradiation on 90 nm Strained Si CMOS on SOI Devices

The Radiation Tolorance of Strained Si/SiGe n-MODFETS

Pulsed Inductive Thruster Papers

Mission Assessment of the Faraday Accelerator with
Radio-frequency Assisted Discharge (FARAD)

PT-1 Plasmoid Thruster capable of multimode
operation

Operational Characteristics of a Low-Energy FARAD Thruster

Laboratory-Model Integrated-System FARAD Thruster

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