# Artur Davoyan

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Email: davoyan@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-7660
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Websites

- Davoyan Research Group

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Advanced materials and systems for applications in space, energy and communications. Advanced and breakthrough propulsion. High power and high energy lasers, laser materials interaction. Nanoscale and two-dimensional materials, metamaterials, plasmonics, metasurfaces. Optoelectronics and photonic devices.

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

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##### IN THE NEWS

- Reaching for the Stars: Revolutionary Propulsion System Could Take Us to Interstellar Space in Record Time | Curiousmos, March 2023
- Pellet-beam Propulsion Spacecraft Could Reach Voyager 1 in 5 years | Interesting Engineering, March 2023
- How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space | Wired, March 2023
- Scientists Propose Method That Shoots Lasers At Spacecraft To Increase Speed ​​Of Space Travel | California 18, February 2023
- Planes on Titan and Pipelines on the Moon: NASA Considering Some Wild Future Tech | Yahoo, January 2023
- Solar-sailing Probes May Soon Get Their Moment in the Sun | Space, January 2023
- Smartphone-Sized Spaceships Could Hold Key To Space Exploration, Study Finds | PHONEWEEK, June 2022
- Smartphone-Sized Spaceships Could Hold Key To Space Exploration, Study Finds | India Times, June 2022
- This system takes CO2 from the air by taking it from the sea | Optimist Daily, March 2022
- Tiny laser-propelled spaceships could travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond | Space.com, March 2022
- Laser-Powered Sails Would be Great for Exploring the Solar System too | Universe Today, February 2022
- Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers | Science Daily, February 2022
- Low-Power Lasers Propel Much Faster than Rocket Engines | AZO Optics, February 2022
- Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers | EurekAlert, February 2022
- SAIL ORDER ‘Interstellar sails’ that propel spacecraft to speed of light using LASERS could take us to distant planets, experts say | The U.S. Sun, February 2022
- Novel nanomaterial-based light sails for low-power spacecraft propulsion in Earth orbit and interplanetary travel | Nano Werk, February 2022
- Forget About Interstellar Flights. Tiny Light Sails Could be Used to Explore the Solar System Today | Universe Today, July 2021
- UCLA’s Promise Institute Announces 2021-22 Grant Recipients | Asbarez, July 2021
- Solar-sailing CubeSat concept could give better look at weird objects like ‘Oumuamuaz | SyFy, July 2021
- A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object | Universe Today, July 2021
- NASA Funds Interstellar Probe and Space Habitats Made From Fungi | Gizmodo, April 2021
- NASA Selects Innovative, Early-Stage Tech Concepts for Continued Study | India Education Diary, April 2021
- NASA Teases A Mars Base Made Of Mushrooms, A Swarm Of Spacecraft To Venus And A Giant Dish On The Moon | Forbes, April 2021
- A Radio Telescope Built in a Crater on the Moon – And Other Innovative NASA Tech Concepts Being Researched | SciTechDaily, April 2021

##### EDUCATION

Australian National University, 2011