Enhanced performance of cylindrical Hall thrusters

Y. Raitses; A. Smirnov; N. J. Fisch

doi:10.1063/1.2741413

Enhanced performance of cylindrical Hall thrusters

Y. Raitses, A. Smirnov, N. J. Fisch

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Abstract

The cylindrical thruster differs significantly in its underlying physical mechanisms from the conventional annular Hall thruster. It features high ionization efficiency, quiet operation, ion acceleration in a large volume-to-surface ratio channel, and performance comparable with the state-of-the-art conventional Hall thrusters. Very significant plume narrowing, accompanied by the increase of the energetic ion fraction and improvement of ion focusing, led to 50%-60% increase of the thruster anode efficiency. These improvements were achieved by overrunning the discharge current in the magnetized thruster plasma.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	221502
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	90
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2741413
State	Published - 2007

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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