A study of cylindrical Hall thruster for low power space applications

Technical Report · Thu Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/759246· OSTI ID:759246

Raitses, Y; Fisch, N J; Ertmer, K M; Burlingame, C A

A 9 cm cylindrical thruster with a ceramic channel exhibited performance comparable to the state-of-the-art Hall thrusters at low and moderate power levels. Significantly, its operation is not accompanied by large amplitude discharge low frequency oscillations. Preliminary experiments on a 2 cm cylindrical thruster suggest the possibility of a high performance micro Hall thruster.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 759246
• Report Number(s): PPPL-3479; TRN: AH200025%%41
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 27 Jul 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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