Laser-induced fluorescence velocity measurements of a diverging cusped-field thruster

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 29, 2011, Pages

  MacDonald, N A ^a   Cappelli, M A ^a   Gildea, S R ^b   Martinez Sanchez M ^b   Hargus, W A ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION CHANNELS; CONE ANGLE; DISCHARGE CURRENTS; HIGH-CURRENT; ION EMISSIONS; ION VELOCITY; ION VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; STATE TRANSITIONS; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR; XENON IONS;

EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE; IONS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79960249817     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/29/295203     Document Type: Article

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