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ALPE Testing at Georgia Tech

April 2024

ALPE member Austen Thomas traveled to the Georgia Institute of Technology to participate in the Joint Advanced Propulsion Institute (JANUS) test campaign obtaining high-speed ion energy measurments on the H9 Hall thruster!

Congratulations to David Sirbescu-Stanley

April 2024

David completed his Masters Thesis titled "Diagnosing Discharge Events within a Novel Miniature Simplified Coaxial Ion Trap Mass Analyzer"

ALPE tests at Penn State

April 2024

Brendan Schulz traveled to Penn State to test his CubeSat Langmuir probe system in Dr. Sven Bilen's LEO simulator chamber

Congrats to members of ALPE on their recent publications!

N. R. Taylor, M. H. Brummel, M. M. Mooney, T. V. Kerber, and K. M. Lemmer "On the Formation of Ammonia from the Thermal Decomposition of Hydroxylammonium Nitrate Vapor," Journal of Ionic Liquids, 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.jil.2024.100083

N. R. Taylor and K. Lemmer "Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection of Nitroxyl (HNO) Formed from the Thermal Decomposition of Hydroxylammonium Nitrate Vapor," Journal of Ionic Liquids, 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.jil.2024.100084

A. Thomas and K. Lemmer “Time-resolved Ion Energy Measurements Using A Retarding Potential Analyzer for Electric Propulsion Applications,” Review of Scientific Instruments, January 2024. doi: 10.1063/5.0176167

ALPE Attends AIAA SCITECH Forum

January 2024

Margaret Mooney and Kristina Lemmer attended the AIAA SCITECH Forum in Orlando, FL. The women of EP were representing! Margaret presented her paper titled, "The effect of probe separation distance on the analysis of plasma waves in a cathode plasma."

ALPE Attends Gaseous Electronics Conference

October, 2023

ALPE attended GEC 2023 in Ann Arbor, where several students presented their recent work on hollow cathodes, electrospray thrusters, and time-resolved plasma diagnostics.

September, 2023

Congratulations to Asif Mohammed on passing his proposal defense!