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Suliman Alshammari, Abdullh Jabr, Saad Jaddua and Abdulhakim Alabadusalam
A compact microwave ECR ion source with low operating power was tested and commissioned for the ion injector line in the multipurpose low-energy ELASR storage ring facility at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh. The compact ...
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Yu-Lin Song, Manoj Kumar Reddy, Hung-Yung Wen and Luh-Maan Chang
The extremely low-frequency (ELF) and its corresponding electromagnetic field influences the yield of CMOS processes in the foundry, especially for high-end equipment such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) systems, transmission electron microscopy (T...
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Svyatoslav Gordeev, Stepan Kanev, Andrey Melnikov, Igor Nazarenko and Sergey Khartov
The work is devoted to the theoretical assessment of the efficiency increase possibility for the radio-frequency ion injector, which is designed for the contactless removal of space debris from near-earth orbit by using an antenna located inside the disc...
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Hugonnaud Valentin and Mazouffre Stéphane
Over the last decade electric propulsion devices have evolved from laboratory units to qualified space hardware. Due to the diversity of concepts numerous electric thruster technologies are available on the new space market. Each technology has a specifi...
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Thibault Hallouin and Stéphane Mazouffre
The 100 W-class ISCT100-v2 Hall Thruster (HT) has been characterized in terms of far-field plume properties. By means of a Faraday Cup and a Retarding Potential Analyzer, both the ion current density and the ion energy distribution function have been mea...
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Gerrie Lange
This paper presents a design and working principle for a combined powder-in-gas target. The excellent surface-to-volume ratio of micrometer-sized powder particles injected into a forced carrier-gas-driven environment provides optimal beam power-induced h...
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Bing Hui, Xiuhua Fu, Des Gibson, David Child, Shigeng Song, Lewis Fleming, Guntis Rutins, Hin On Chu, Caspar Clark and Stuart Reid
A hollow cathode plasma source has been operated automatically, demonstrating independent control of plasma ion energy and ion current density for plasma ion-assisted electron beam-deposited titania (TiO2). The lanthanum hexaboride hollow cathode design ...
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Songwen Deng, Gang Li, Feng Wang, Qipeng Lv, Long Sun and Yuqi Jin
Ultra-high reflectors, working as a critical optical component, has been widely applied as a cavity mirror in fine optical systems such as laser gyro, F-P interferometer, etc. For decades, ion beam sputtering (IBS) technology, which can deposit ultra-low...
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Thomas Fahey, Angus Muffatti and Hideaki Ogawa
The Cusped Field Thruster (CFT) concept has demonstrated significantly improved performance over the Hall Effect Thruster and the Gridded Ion Thruster; however, little is understood about the complexities of the interactions and interdependencies of the ...
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Daniela Pedrini, Tommaso Misuri, Fabrizio Paganucci and Mariano Andrenucci
Hollow cathodes are electron sources used for the gas ionization and the beam neutralization in both ion and Hall effect thrusters (HETs). A reduction of power and propellant consumption from the cathode is particularly needed in small satellite applicat...
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