Investigation of the onset voltage for the design of a microfabricated colloid thruster

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-74

  Xiong, Jijun ^a   Sun, Dong ^b   Zhou, Zhaoying ^c   Zhang, Wendong ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colloid thruster; Electric field; Microfabrication; Onset voltage

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ESTIMATION; FABRICATION;

COLLOID THRUSTER; MICROFABRICATION; ONSET VOLTAGE;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33244483891     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2005.859843     Document Type: Article

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