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The Utah State University Materials Physics Group (MPG) performs state-of-the-art ground-based testing of space environment effects on aerospace materials. These include electrical charging and electron transport properties of both conducting and insulating materials; they emphasize studies of electron emission, conductivity, luminescence, and electrostatic discharge. Our research group consists of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate researchers. Publications and presentations are archived here.
2023
Methods for Preparing and Characterizing Granular Materials for Electron Yield Measurements, Tom Keaton
2022
Temperature Dependent Density of States Models and Compiled Data for Radiation Induced Conductivity, Jodie Gillespie
2021
The Internal Charge Evolution of Multilayered Materials Undergoing Mono-Energetic Electron Bombardment, Gregory Wilson
Remote Electrostatic Potential Determination for Spacecraft Relative Motion Control, Kieran Wilson
Remote Electrostatic Potential Determination for Spacecraft Relative Motion Control, Kieran T. H. Wilson
2020
Space Environment near the Sun and its Effects on Parker Solar Probe and the Fields Instrument, Millan Diaz-Aguado
Studies on secondary electron emission induced charging in dielectric materials: Novel methods and applications for space and plasma technologies, leandro Olano Garcia
Electron Emission and Transport Properties Database for Spacecraft Charging Models, Phil Lundgreen
2019
2018
The Role of Recoverable and Non-Recoverable Defects in DC Electrical Aging of Highly Disordered Insulating Materials, Allen Andersen
2017
Electron Yield Measurements of High-Yield, Low-Conductivity Dielectric Materials, Justin Christensen
2016
Cryostat System for Spacecraft Materials Testing, Justin Dekany
2015
2014
Modeling the Defect Density of States of Disordered SiO2 Through Cathodoluminescence, Amberly Evans Jensen
2013
Measurements of the Temperature Dependence of Radiation Induced Conductivity in Polymeric Dielectrics, Jodie Corbridge Gillespie
Unified Model of Charge Transport in Insulating Polymeric Materials, Alec Sim
2012
In Situ Measurements of Electron-Beam-Induced Surface Voltage of Highly Resistive Materials, Joshua Hodges
2010
Hopping Conductivity and Charge Transport in Low Density Polyethylene, Jerilyn Brunson
Electron-Induced Electron Yields of Uncharged Insulating Materials, Ryan Carl Hoffmann
2006
2005
Measurements of the Secondary Electron Emission Properties of Insulators, Clint D. Thomson
2004
Computational Scattering Models for Elastic and Electromagnetic Waves in Particulate Media, Timothy Edwin Doyle
Measurement of Charge Storage Decay Time and Resistivity of Spacecraft Insulators, Prasanna V. Swaminathan
2002
The Role of Bandgap in the Secondary Electron Emission of Small Bandgap Semiconductors: Studies of Graphitic Carbon, Neal E. Nickles
2001
Experimental Investigation of Snapover: The Sudden Increase of Plasma Current Drawn to a Positively Biased Conductor When Surrounded by a Dielectric, Clint D. Thomson
1999
Measurement of Angle-Resolved Secondary Electron Spectra, Robert Davies
1996
An Instrument for Experimental Secondary Electron Emission Investigations, with Application to the Spacecraft Charging Problem, Robert Davies
1995
Structure and Interaction Energies of Kr Atoms Adsorbed on Graphitic Amorphous Carbon, Sang -Joon Lee
1994
Asymmetric Adsorbate and Substrate Interactions in Physisorbed Systems: N2 on Graphite and Dipolar Molecules on Ionic Substrates, Teresa Ellen Burns
1993
Properties of Rigid Foams for Application as Materials for Light Weight Structures in Space, Huichen Chi
1992
An Embedded Ring Approach to the Vibrational Dynamics of Disordered Two-Dimensional Materials, Timothy Edwin Doyle
Intrinsic Loss in Infrared Optical Fibers, Prapassorn Tantiphanwadi
1990
1985
(e,2e) Spectroscopic Investigations of the Spectral Momentum Densities of Thin Carbon Films, John Robert Dennison