Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails

Engineering & Materials Science

• Radiative Cooling 100%
• Nanophotonics 95%
• Heterojunctions 78%
• Propulsion 54%
• Infrared radiation 52%
• High power lasers 33%
• Lasers 18%
• Laser beams 13%
• Temperature control 11%
• Thin films 11%
• Spacecraft 10%
• Radiation 9%

Physics & Astronomy

• sails 89%
• propulsion 68%
• cooling 40%
• payloads 23%
• emissivity 21%
• reflectance 21%
• high power lasers 19%
• laser propulsion 15%
• radiation pressure 11%
• phased arrays 11%
• figure of merit 9%
• spacecraft 9%
• lasers 8%
• absorptivity 8%
• engineering 7%
• laser beams 7%
• electromagnetism 7%
• thin films 5%

Chemical Compounds

• Reflectivity 69%
• Emissivity 56%
• Cooling 53%
• Figure of Merit 23%
• Absorptivity 19%
• Pressure 11%