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<b>Parametric Investigations of Non-Conventional Hall Thruster</b>
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Authors: Y. Raitses and N.J. Fisch
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> January 2001
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<b>Published in:</b> Phys. Plasmas <b>8</b> (May 2001) 2579-2586.                                                                                     
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Hall thrusters might better scale to low power with non-conventional geometry. A 9 cm
cylindrical, ceramic-channel, Hall thruster with a cusp-type magnetic field distribution
has been investigated. It exhibits discharge characteristics similar to conventional coaxial
Hall thrusters, but does not expose as much channel surface. Significantly, its operation is
not accompanied by large amplitude discharge low frequency oscillations.

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