University of Pennsylvania Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research
Leivtation
Research Area
Photophoretic Levitation
In preliminary experiments, we demonstrated photophoretic levitation and propulsion of macroscopic (millimeter-scale) plates—thousands of times larger than ever before realized...
With his collaborators, Prof. Bargatin's group has been developing MEMS-based prototypes of heat-to-electricity and solar-to-electricity energy converters...
