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Published May 2020 | Published
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Self-Stabilizing Silicon Nitride Lightsails

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We report a design for a microscopic lightsail prototype that allows for passive stabilization in the radiation-pressure dominated regime. Stable dynamics of our silicon nitride structure are predicted for initial tilts of up to ±10°.

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