Xe+ Ion Transport in the Crossed-Field Discharge of a 5-kW-Class Hall Effect Thruster

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1967-1976

  Mazouffre, Stéphane ^a   Gawron, Damien ^a   Kulaev, Vladimir ^a   Sadeghi, Nader ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Electric propulsion; Hall effect thruster (HET); ion velocity distribution function (VDF); laser spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008010313     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2004240     Document Type: Article

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