Antenna design and optimization for helicon plasma thruster with coupled surface and volume integral equations

Melazzi Davide; V. Lancellotti; M. Manente; D. Pavarin

doi:10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632337

Antenna design and optimization for helicon plasma thruster with coupled surface and volume integral equations

Melazzi Davide, V. Lancellotti, M. Manente, D. Pavarin

Electromagnetics

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Optimization of radiofrequency helicon plasma sources for the development of space plasma thrusters (whose thrust efficiency and specific impulse depend on the power coupled into the plasma) has focused on the absorption of wave energy by cold collisional plasmas, but not much on the role played by the antenna that drives the discharge. To overcome these limitations and to optimize the power deposited by the antenna into the plasma, we propose a full-wave approach based on integral equations to compute the current distribution on the antenna conductors self-consistently, i.e., also keeping into account the effect that the plasma in turn has on the antenna. Preliminary results of antenna current distribution and antenna impedance versus frequency and plasma parameters are presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA '13), September 9-13, 2013, Turin, Italy
Place of Publication	Turin
Pages	712-715
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632337
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	15th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2013) - Torino, Italy Duration: 9 Sept 2013 → 13 Sept 2013 Conference number: 15

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Conference	15th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2013)
Abbreviated title	ICEAA 2013
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	9/09/13 → 13/09/13

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Davide, M., Lancellotti, V., Manente, M., & Pavarin, D. (2013). Antenna design and optimization for helicon plasma thruster with coupled surface and volume integral equations. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA '13), September 9-13, 2013, Turin, Italy (pp. 712-715). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632337

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Davide, M, Lancellotti, V, Manente, M & Pavarin, D 2013, Antenna design and optimization for helicon plasma thruster with coupled surface and volume integral equations. in Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA '13), September 9-13, 2013, Turin, Italy. Turin, pp. 712-715, 15th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2013), Torino, Italy, 9/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632337

Antenna design and optimization for helicon plasma thruster with coupled surface and volume integral equations. / Davide, Melazzi; Lancellotti, V.; Manente, M. et al.

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA '13), September 9-13, 2013, Turin, Italy. Turin, 2013. p. 712-715.

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