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Performance Advantages and Design Challenges of Diffractive Solar Sails

Grover A. Swartzlander, Prateek R. Srivastava, and Ryan M. Crum

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Abstract

Diffractive solar sails afford advantages over reflective s ails f or in-space propulsion. This requires a gratings having a high diffraction efficiency and a high diffraction angle across the solar spectrum.

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