Last Known Contact Info:
Email: 
Work Address: AFRL/RZSA
10 East Saturn Blvd.
Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524
Work Phone: (661) 275-5676
Education:
B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California, 2003
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford, 2005
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford, 2009
David Scharfe first became
interested
in Electric Propulsion after taking a course taught by Dr. Keith
Goodfellow
at USC. After that, he began research in propulsion and nano-pore flows
in the laboratories of Professors Ketsdever and Muntz at USC, and also
conducted some work in the E.P. group
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Research Activities at Stanford:
The primary focus of David's doctoral research was on developing diagnostic techniques for bismuth and krypton plasma devices. He also worked to analyze the effects of bismuth and krypton as propellants in Hall thruster simulations.
Ph.D. Dissertation:
"Alternative Hall thruster propellants krypton and bismuth: simulated performance and characterization."
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