This paper aims to assess the potential and requirements of photovoltaic arrays to provide
energy for more than 30 mission types to explore 14 celestial bodies in our solar system …

Polyimide (PI, Kapton-H®) films are widely utilized in the spacecraft industry for their
insulating properties, mechanical durability, light weight, and chemical resistance to …

This paper reviews materials challenges and recent progress for selective area regrowth
and doping for vertical gallium nitride (GaN) power devices. The purpose is to realize …

Charging effect frequently occurs when characterizing nonconductive materials using
electrons as probes and/or signals and can impede the acquisition of useful information …

In this paper, a number of drawbacks and contradictions of the existing models of charging
dielectric targets under irradiation with defocused electron beams of moderate energies (0.2 …

The modelling of the Hall thruster SPT-100 is a very important issue in view of the increasing
importance of such propulsion devices in space applications. Only kinetic models can …

We show that secondary electrons in a scanning electron microscope can provide important
information about spatial dopant distribution in pin GaN structures, with the highest contrast …

A very good example for the application of PIC techniques for detailed studies of low‐
temperature plasmas is the Hall thrusters. Here, a variety of models with different …

It has been shown experimentally that the channel wall material has a substantial effect on
the behaviour of Hall discharges. For this reason, the radial profile inside the Hall thruster …

Measurement of electron energy spectra of dielectrics is a challenge due to charging issues.
This article presents experimental results of electron energy spectra of dielectric materials …