Nonlinear ion dynamics in Hall thruster plasma source by ion transit-time instability

Youbong Lim; Wonho Choe; Stéphane Mazouffre; Jae Sun Park; Holak Kim; Jongho Seon; L. Garrigues

doi:10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9

Nonlinear ion dynamics in Hall thruster plasma source by ion transit-time instability

Youbong Lim, Wonho Choe, Stéphane Mazouffre, Jae Sun Park, Holak Kim, Jongho Seon, L. Garrigues

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

10 Scopus citations

Abstract

High-energy tail formation in an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) is explained in a Hall thruster plasma with the stationary crossed electric and magnetic fields whose discharge current is oscillated at the ion transit-time scale with a frequency of 360 kHz. Among ions in different charge states, singly charged Xe ions (Xe⁺) have an IEDF that is significantly broadened and shifted toward the high-energy side, which contributes to tail formation in the entire IEDF. Analytical and numerical investigations confirm that the IEDF tail is due to nonlinear ion dynamics in the ion transit-time oscillation.

Original language	English
Article number	03LT01
Journal	Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9
State	Published - Feb 14 2017
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This work was partly supported by the Space Core Technology Program (Grant No. 2014M1A3A3A02034510) ?and National R&D program (Grant No. 2014M1A7A1A03045092) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by Ministry of Science, ICT

Funders	Funder number
National R&D program	2014M1A7A1A03045092
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
National Research Foundation of Korea

Keywords

Hall thruster
IEDF
crossed-field discharge
high-energy tail
ion transit-time instability
nonlinear ion dynamics

Access to Document

10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9

Cite this

@article{80250febad6c44d4833e34bdedf148a7,

title = "Nonlinear ion dynamics in Hall thruster plasma source by ion transit-time instability",

abstract = "High-energy tail formation in an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) is explained in a Hall thruster plasma with the stationary crossed electric and magnetic fields whose discharge current is oscillated at the ion transit-time scale with a frequency of 360 kHz. Among ions in different charge states, singly charged Xe ions (Xe+) have an IEDF that is significantly broadened and shifted toward the high-energy side, which contributes to tail formation in the entire IEDF. Analytical and numerical investigations confirm that the IEDF tail is due to nonlinear ion dynamics in the ion transit-time oscillation.",

keywords = "Hall thruster, IEDF, crossed-field discharge, high-energy tail, ion transit-time instability, nonlinear ion dynamics",

author = "Youbong Lim and Wonho Choe and St{\'e}phane Mazouffre and Park, {Jae Sun} and Holak Kim and Jongho Seon and L. Garrigues",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd.",

year = "2017",

month = feb,

day = "14",

doi = "10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9",

language = "English",

volume = "26",

journal = "Plasma Sources Science and Technology",

issn = "0963-0252",

publisher = "IOP Publishing",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Nonlinear ion dynamics in Hall thruster plasma source by ion transit-time instability

AU - Lim, Youbong

AU - Choe, Wonho

AU - Mazouffre, Stéphane

AU - Park, Jae Sun

AU - Kim, Holak

AU - Seon, Jongho

AU - Garrigues, L.

PY - 2017/2/14

Y1 - 2017/2/14

N2 - High-energy tail formation in an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) is explained in a Hall thruster plasma with the stationary crossed electric and magnetic fields whose discharge current is oscillated at the ion transit-time scale with a frequency of 360 kHz. Among ions in different charge states, singly charged Xe ions (Xe+) have an IEDF that is significantly broadened and shifted toward the high-energy side, which contributes to tail formation in the entire IEDF. Analytical and numerical investigations confirm that the IEDF tail is due to nonlinear ion dynamics in the ion transit-time oscillation.

AB - High-energy tail formation in an ion energy distribution function (IEDF) is explained in a Hall thruster plasma with the stationary crossed electric and magnetic fields whose discharge current is oscillated at the ion transit-time scale with a frequency of 360 kHz. Among ions in different charge states, singly charged Xe ions (Xe+) have an IEDF that is significantly broadened and shifted toward the high-energy side, which contributes to tail formation in the entire IEDF. Analytical and numerical investigations confirm that the IEDF tail is due to nonlinear ion dynamics in the ion transit-time oscillation.

KW - Hall thruster

KW - IEDF

KW - crossed-field discharge

KW - high-energy tail

KW - ion transit-time instability

KW - nonlinear ion dynamics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014717957&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9

DO - 10.1088/1361-6595/aa58d9

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85014717957

SN - 0963-0252

VL - 26

JO - Plasma Sources Science and Technology

JF - Plasma Sources Science and Technology

IS - 3

M1 - 03LT01

ER -

Nonlinear ion dynamics in Hall thruster plasma source by ion transit-time instability

Abstract

Funding

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this