Analysis of the primary experimental results on a 5 cm diameter ECR ion thruster

Yujun KE (柯于俊); Xinfeng SUN (孙新锋); Xuekang CHEN (陈学康); Licheng TIAN (田立成); Tianping ZHANG (张天平); Maofan ZHENG (郑茂繁); Yanhui JIA (贾艳辉); Haocheng JIANG (江豪成)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/aa6d4c

Plasma Science and Technology > 2017 > 19(9): 95503-095503. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aa6d4c

Yujun KE (柯于俊), Xinfeng SUN (孙新锋), Xuekang CHEN (陈学康), Licheng TIAN (田立成), Tianping ZHANG (张天平), Maofan ZHENG (郑茂繁), Yanhui JIA (贾艳辉), Haocheng JIANG (江豪成). Analysis of the primary experimental results on a 5 cm diameter ECR ion thruster[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2017, 19(9): 95503-095503. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aa6d4c

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Analysis of the primary experimental results on a 5 cm diameter ECR ion thruster

Science and Technology on Vacuum Technology and Physics Laboratory, Lanzhou Institute of Physics, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China

Funds: This work was supported in part by the fund of Science and Tech?nology on Vacuum Technology and the Physics Laboratory of Lanzhou Institute of Physics under grant YSC0715, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 62601210, and in part by the Civil Aerospace Technology Research Project under grant D010509.

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Received Date: January 19, 2017

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An ECR ion thruster with a diameter of 5 cm has been developed and tested. Four different antenna positions were experimentally and numerically investigated, and the results suggest that the optimal location for the antenna is where it is perfectly surrounded by the electron cyclotron resonance layer. We also evaluated two different antenna configurations, and found that the star configuration is preferable to the circular configuration, and also that the circular antenna is only 40% as efficient as the star antenna. The experimental curve of the ion beam current and voltage agrees with the fitting results from the analytic solution. The simulation of the magnetic topology in the discharging chamber with different back yoke heights indicates that it needs to be further verified.
- electromagnetic coupling,
- ECR ion thruster,
- magnetic field effects

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