On abnormal behaviors of ion beam extracted from electron cyclotron resonance ion thruster driven by rod antenna in cross magnetic field

Juan LI (李娟); Shenghui FU (付省辉); Yurou YANG (杨雨柔); Zhenfeng DING (丁振峰)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ac061a

Plasma Science and Technology > 2021 > 23(8): 85506-085506. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac061a

Juan LI (李娟), Shenghui FU (付省辉), Yurou YANG (杨雨柔), Zhenfeng DING (丁振峰). On abnormal behaviors of ion beam extracted from electron cyclotron resonance ion thruster driven by rod antenna in cross magnetic field[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2021, 23(8): 85506-085506. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac061a

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On abnormal behaviors of ion beam extracted from electron cyclotron resonance ion thruster driven by rod antenna in cross magnetic field

School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China

Funds: This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11975070) and Open Funds for Science and Technology on Vacuum Technology and Physics Laboratory, Lanzhou Institute of Physics (No. zwk1609).

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Received Date: March 04, 2021
Revised Date: May 21, 2021
Accepted Date: May 26, 2021

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In a 2.45 GHz electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion thruster powered with rod antenna under a cross magnetic field, abnormal behaviours such as sudden drop of ion beam current (I_b) and larger increasing-rate of I_b in the high microwave power (P_w) discharges at high gas flow rates were observed. A differential method was proposed to reveal the changes in the radial profiles of gray values extracted from the end-view discharge images. The increasing-rate of I_b with respect to Pw was used to evaluate efficiencies of ion production and transport. Analyses indicate that discharges are dominantly sustained by ordinary wave via electron heating in the electron plasma resonance layer that can shift along the rod-antenna, and extraordinary wave can only ignite a discharge in the ECR layer in the low gas flow rate regime. In terms of the confinement region defined by the magnetic field lines intercepting with the screen grid, the confinement region of the optimized 2.45 GHz cross magnetic field takes the shape of hourglass, enabling the high increasing-rate of I_b with respect to P_w in high power discharges at high gas flow rates. Correlated with the accompanied bright boundary layer appearing in the differentiated image, the sudden drop of I_b in the low gas flow rate regime is attributed to the discharge ignited by the enhanced extraordinary wave in the ECR layer neighbouring the narrowest confinement region, where the produced ions can promptly enter the loss region.
- ECR ion thruster,
- ion beam current,
- discharge mode transition

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