Hypervelocity impacts on solar cells — observations, experiments, and empirical scaling laws

Analogies and differences between quasi-

Analogies and differences between quasi-static indentation and hypervelocity impact morphologies on thin solar cells

✍ Mark K. Herbert; Jean-Claude Mandeville; Emma A. Taylor; J.Anthony M. Mcdonnell 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 632 KB

Morphologies produced by quasi-static indentation on thin Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar cells show remarkable similarities to much of the hypervelocity damage sustained by the HST solar array whilst in orbit. Quasi-static indentation tests carried out with blunt and sharp indentors reveal analo