Compact helicon plasma source with permanent magnets for electric propulsion application

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 5176-5182

  Shamrai, Konstantin P ^a,b,c   Virko, Yury V ^a,b   Virko, Valéry F ^a,b   Yakimenko, Alexander I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b Department of Plasma Theory ^*  (Ukraine)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICONS; ION BEAMS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PLASMAS; PRESSURE CONTROL;

ANNULAR FERRITE; ELECTROMAGNET; GAS PRESSURE;

ELECTRIC PROPULSION;

EID: 34249329211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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