Design and operation of an annular helicon plasma source

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 3086-3103

  Yano, Masayuki ^a,b,c   Palmes, Doug ^a,b,c   Williams, Logan ^a,b,c   Walker, Mitchell L R ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; HALL EFFECT; HELICONS; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC FIELD STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH; TRIVELPIECE-GOULD WAVES;

PLASMA SOURCES;

EID: 36749072941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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