상세정보
Export to Refworks부가기능
Investigating Energetic Porous Silicon as a Solid Propellant Micro-Thruster
상세 프로파일
| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Investigating Energetic Porous Silicon as a Solid Propellant Micro-Thruster. |
| 개인저자 | Churaman, Wayne A. |
| 단체저자명 | University of Maryland, College Park. Mechanical Engineering. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of Maryland, College Park., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 151 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-02B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781085558853 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02, Section: B.
Advisor: Bergbreiter, Sarah. |
| 이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
| 요약 | Energetic porous silicon has emerged as a novel on-chip energetic material capable of generating thrust that can be harnessed for positioning of millimeter and micron-scale mobile platforms such as microrobots and nano-satellites. Porous silicon becomes reactive when nano-scale pores are infused with an oxidizer such as sodium perchlorate. In this work, energetic porous silicon was investigated as a means of propulsion by quantifying thrust and impulse produced during the exothermic reaction as a function of porosity. The baseline porous silicon devices were two millimeter diameter and etched to a target depth of 25 microns. As a result of changing porosity, a 7x increase in thrust performance and a 16x increase in impulse performance was demonstrated. The highest thrust and impulse values measured were 680 mN and 266 micron Newton seconds respectively from a 2 mm diameter porous silicon device with 72% porosity.Limitations and trade-offs associated with arrays of devices were presented by studying the effects of scaling porous silicon area, and characterizing thrust when arrays of porous silicon micro-thruster devices were ignited simultaneously. In addition, the effects of sympathetic ignition were evaluated to better understand how closely independent devices could be physically spaced on a 1 cm2 chip. 3D nozzles were fabricated to study confinement effects by varying nozzle throat diameter, and divergent angle. It was shown that integration of a nozzle (throat diameter of 0.75 mm and a divergent angle of theta = 10 degrees) resulted in approximately 4x increase in thrust, and 4x increase in impulse. This study highlighted enhancements to thrust and impulse generated by porous silicon, identified trade-offs associated with simultaneous activation of multiple devices on a 1 cm2 chip, and showed energetic porous silicon as a viable solid propellant for propulsion of nano-satellites and micro-robots. |
| 일반주제명 | Mechanical engineering. Engineering. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 바로가기 | 
: 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다. |
