Magnetically enhanced vacuum arc thruster

Plasma Sources Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 661-669

  Keidar, Michael ^a   Schein, Jochen ^b,d   Wilson, Kristi ^b   Gerhan, Andrew ^b   Au, Michael ^b   Tang, Benjamin ^b   Idzkowski, Luke ^b   Krishnan, Mahadevan ^b   Beilis, Isak I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ALAMEDA APPLIED SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRODES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ION CURRENT DENSITY; PLUME EXPANSION; RING ELECTRODES; VACUUM ARC THRUSTER;

PLASMA SOURCES;

EID: 27744522309     PISSN: 09630252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/14/4/004     Document Type: Article

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