Electron Cross-field Transport in a Miniaturized Cylindrical Hall Thruster
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Conventional annular Hall thrusters become inefficient when scaled to low power. Cylindrical Hall thrusters, which have lower surface-to-volume ratio, are more promising for scaling down. They presently exhibit performance comparable with conventional annular Hall thrusters. The present paper gives a review of the experimental and numerical investigations of electron crossfield transport in the 2.6 cm miniaturized cylindrical Hall thruster (100 W power level). We show that, in order to explain …
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Date:
October 14, 2005
Creator:
Smirnov Artem, Raitses Yevgeny, Fisch Nathaniel J
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