DocumentCode
3101611
Title
Faraday Cup Measurement for Beam Current in Ion Thruster
Author
Chen, Linying ; Song, Renwang ; Jiang, Haocheng
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Tai Yuan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taiyuan, China
fYear
2010
fDate
26-28 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
409
Lastpage
411
Abstract
The faraday cup is developed for beam current measurement in 20cm ion thrusters. The distribution of beam current density and the beam ion density have been experimented. The maximal current density is 42.3A/mm2 at z = 50mm, the maximal current density is 28A/mm2 at z = 100mm.
Keywords
electric current measurement; ion engines; Faraday cup measurement; beam current density; beam current measurement; beam ion density; current density; ion thruster; size 100 mm; size 20 cm; size 50 mm; Current density; Density measurement; Ion beams; Ions; Plasmas; beam current density; design; faraday cup;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Taiyuan
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8785-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CASoN.2010.99
Filename
5636599
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