Electrical discharge in the Teflon cavity of a coaxial pulsed plasma thruster

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 376-385

  Keidar, Michael ^a   Boyd, Iain D ^a   Beilis, Isak I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; PLASMA SHEATHS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 0034172152     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.848096     Document Type: Article

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