Development of Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters With High-Density Helicon Plasma Sources

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 (~10 13 cm -3 ) plasmas with a broad range of external operating parameters. In this paper, developed, featured sources with various sizes are chara...

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Published inIEEE transactions on plasma science Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 1245 - 1254
Main Authors Shinohara, Shunjiro, Nishida, Hiroyuki, Tanikawa, Takao, Hada, Tohru, Funaki, Ikkoh, Shamrai, Konstantin P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.05.2014
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Acceleration
Antennas
Coils
Electrodes
Helicon wave
Magnetic levitation
Magnetic resonance
Plasma physics
plasma production
plasma propulsion
Plasmas
Production
Helicon wave
plasma propulsion
plasma production
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Summary: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 (~10 13 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.
ISSN:0093-3813
1939-9375
DOI:10.1109/TPS.2014.2313633