Determination of the ionization and acceleration zones in a stationary plasma thruster by optical spectroscopy study: Experiments and model

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 4811-4817

  Dorval, N ^a   Bonnet, J ^a   Marque, J P ^a   Rosencher, E ^a   Chable, S ^a   Rogier, F ^a   Lasgorceix, P ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION DENSITY; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; STATIONARY PLASMA THRUSTER; VELOCITY DETERMINATION; XENON IONS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; IONIZATION;

PLASMA FLOW;

EID: 0037091461     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1458053     Document Type: Article

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