Development of electrodeless plasma thrusters with high-density helicon plasma sources

Shunjiro Shinohara; Hiroyuki Nishida; Takao Tanikawa; Tohru Hada; Ikkoh Funaki; Konstantin P. Shamrai

doi:10.1109/TPS.2014.2313633

Development of electrodeless plasma thrusters with high-density helicon plasma sources

Shunjiro Shinohara, Hiroyuki Nishida, Takao Tanikawa, Tohru Hada, Ikkoh Funaki, Konstantin P. Shamrai

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Helicon plasma sources are very useful in many aspects and are applicable to many fields across science and technology, as they can supply high-density (~10¹³ cm^-3) plasmas with a broad range of external operating parameters. In this paper, developed, featured sources with various sizes are characterized along with discussions on their particle production efficiency. This paper aims to develop systems that can realize schemes with completely electrodeless plasma production and acceleration. This is expected to mitigate the existing problems of the finite lifetimes inherent in electric plasma propulsion tools. Experimental and theoretical approaches that implement such schemes are presented.

Original language	English
Article number	6798761
Pages (from-to)	1245-1254
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	42
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2014.2313633
Publication status	Published - May 2014

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Condensed Matter Physics

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