• 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