Investigation of stochastic heating and its influence on plasma radial uniformity in biased inductively coupled Ar discharges by hybrid simulation

JW Huang, ML Zhao, YR Zhang, F Gao… - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A bias power is usually applied in inductively coupled plasmas (ICP) to realize the separate
control of the plasma density and the ion energy. In this research, a two-dimensional …

Experimental study of a neutralizer-free gridded ion thruster using radio-frequency self-bias effect

Y Zhi, GUO Honghui, BAI Jinwei, LI Yang… - Plasma Science and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An experimental study on the quasi-neutral beam extracted by a neutralizer-free gridded ion
thruster prototype was presented. The prototype was designed using an inductively coupled …

Multiple frequency electron cyclotron resonance thruster

BA Jorns, BN Wachs - US Patent 11,699,575, 2023 - Google Patents
An electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) thruster includes a magnetic field source configured
to generate a magnetic field, a thruster body that defines a chamber, the thruster body being …