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<b>A Study of Cylindrical Hall Thruster for Low Power Space Applications</b>
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Authors: Y. Raitses, N.J. Fisch, K.M. Ertmer, and C.A. Burlingame
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> July 2000
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<p><b>Presented at:</b> the 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 16-19, 2000, at Huntsville, Alabama and submitted for publication in the Journal of Propulsion and Power.</p>

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A 9 cm cylindrical thruster with a ceramic channel exhibited performance comparable to the
state-of-the-art Hall thrusters at low and moderate power levels. Significantly, its
operation is not accompanied by large amplitude discharge low frequency oscillations.
Preliminary experiments on a 2 cm cylindrical thruster suggest the possibility of a high
performance micro Hall thruster.
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