Magnetic confinement studies for performance enhancement of a 5-cm ion thruster

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1319-1329

  Sandonato, Gilberto M ^a   Barroso, Joaquim J ^a   Montes, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY;

ELECTRON MEAN CONTAINMENT TIME; ION THRUSTER; PLASMA ION ENERGY COST; PLASMA POTENTIAL; PROPELLANT MASS FLOW RATE;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0030413025     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.553197     Document Type: Article

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