Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model

Li, Yun; Cui, Wan-Zhao; Wang, Hong-Guang

doi:10.1063/1.4919858

Title: Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model

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Effects of the secondary electron emission (SEE) phenomenon of metal surface on the multipactor analysis of microwave components are investigated numerically and experimentally in this paper. Both the secondary electron yield (SEY) and the emitted energy spectrum measurements are performed on silver plated samples for accurate description of the SEE phenomenon. A phenomenological probabilistic model based on SEE physics is utilized and fitted accurately to the measured SEY and emitted energy spectrum of the conditioned surface material of microwave components. Specially, the phenomenological probabilistic model is extended to the low primary energy end lower than 20 eV mathematically, since no accurate measurement data can be obtained. Embedding the phenomenological probabilistic model into the Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell (EM-PIC) method, the electronic resonant multipacting in microwave components can be tracked and hence the multipactor threshold can be predicted. The threshold prediction error of the transformer and the coaxial filter is 0.12 dB and 1.5 dB, respectively. Simulation results demonstrate that the discharge threshold is strongly dependent on the SEYs and its energy spectrum in the low energy end (lower than 50 eV). Multipacting simulation results agree quite well with experiments in practical components, while the phenomenological probabilistic model fit both the SEY and the emission energy spectrummore »« less

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Li, Yun; Cui, Wan-Zhao ^[1]; Wang, Hong-Guang ^[2]

National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Science, China Academy of Space Technology (Xi'an), Xi'an 710100 (China)
Key Laboratory of Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049 (China)

Publication Date:: Fri May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI Identifier:: 22410335

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physics of Plasmas

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 5; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; COLLISIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ENERGY SPECTRA; EV RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FILTERS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; SECONDARY EMISSION; SILVER

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                    Li, Yun, Cui, Wan-Zhao, and Wang, Hong-Guang. Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
        Web.  doi:10.1063/1.4919858.

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                    Li, Yun, Cui, Wan-Zhao, & Wang, Hong-Guang. Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919858

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                    Li, Yun, Cui, Wan-Zhao, and Wang, Hong-Guang. 2015.  
        "Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919858.

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@article{osti_22410335,

  title        = {Simulation investigation of multipactor in metal components for space application with an improved secondary emission model},

  author       = {Li, Yun and Cui, Wan-Zhao and Wang, Hong-Guang},

  abstractNote = {Effects of the secondary electron emission (SEE) phenomenon of metal surface on the multipactor analysis of microwave components are investigated numerically and experimentally in this paper. Both the secondary electron yield (SEY) and the emitted energy spectrum measurements are performed on silver plated samples for accurate description of the SEE phenomenon. A phenomenological probabilistic model based on SEE physics is utilized and fitted accurately to the measured SEY and emitted energy spectrum of the conditioned surface material of microwave components. Specially, the phenomenological probabilistic model is extended to the low primary energy end lower than 20 eV mathematically, since no accurate measurement data can be obtained. Embedding the phenomenological probabilistic model into the Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell (EM-PIC) method, the electronic resonant multipacting in microwave components can be tracked and hence the multipactor threshold can be predicted. The threshold prediction error of the transformer and the coaxial filter is 0.12 dB and 1.5 dB, respectively. Simulation results demonstrate that the discharge threshold is strongly dependent on the SEYs and its energy spectrum in the low energy end (lower than 50 eV). Multipacting simulation results agree quite well with experiments in practical components, while the phenomenological probabilistic model fit both the SEY and the emission energy spectrum better than the traditionally used model and distribution. The EM-PIC simulation method with the phenomenological probabilistic model for the surface collision simulation has been demonstrated for predicting the multipactor threshold in metal components for space application.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4919858},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22410335},
  journal      = {Physics of Plasmas},

  issn         = {1070-664X},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 22,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},

  month        = {Fri May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}

}

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