Use of emission spectroscopy for real-time assessment of relative wall erosion rate of BHT-200 hall thruster for various regimes of operation

Radiation emission due to Boron atoms sputtered from the Boron-Nitride ceramic walls of a BHT-200 Hall thruster was measured as a diagnostic for real time assessment of thruster wall erosion and to determine the e ects of various operation conditions on thruster lifetime. Boron neutral 249.677 and...

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Main Authors: Celik, Murat Alp, Batishchev, Oleg, Martinez-Sanchez, Manuel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60283