A high sensitivity momentum flux measuring instrument for plasma thruster exhausts and diffusive plasmas

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  West, Michael D ^a   Charles, Christine ^a   Boswell, Rod W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM VELOCITY; COLD GAS; COMPOUND PENDULUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROBES; DIFFUSIVE PLASMAS; DOUBLE LAYERS; DOWNSTREAM COMPONENTS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION DEVICES; EXPANDING PLASMAS; FUSION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LASER DISPLACEMENT; LOW DENSITY; LOW-COST DEVICES; MEAN FREE PATH; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEUTRAL-CHARGE; PLASMA PARAMETER; PLASMA THRUSTERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SURFACE STRESS MEASUREMENT; TARGET PLATES; TECHNIQUES USED; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

ARGON; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC MOTORS; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; INSTRUMENTS; ION BEAMS; ION EXCHANGE; IONS; MOMENTUM; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMAS; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; STRESS MEASUREMENT; TARGETS; VACUUM;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 66549105746     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3142477     Document Type: Article

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