Multipactor prediction for on-board spacecraft RF equipment with the MEST software tool

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2 III, 2006, Pages 476-484

  de Lara, Juan ^a   Pérez, Francisco ^a   Alfonseca, Manuel ^a   Galán, Luis ^a   Montero, Isabel ^b   Román, Elisa ^b   Garcia Baquero, David Raboso ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multipactor simulation; Secondary emission simulation; Simulation software

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ELECTRON EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SECONDARY EMISSION; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT;

MULTIPACTOR SIMULATION; SECONDARY EMISSION SIMULATION; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

PLASMA SIMULATION;

EID: 33646155328     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.872450     Document Type: Article

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