{"title":"Measurement of output current for ferroelectric micro-plasma thruster","authors":"Hai Wang, Biao Yang, Yang Any, L. Wen","doi":"10.1109/NEMS.2016.7758212","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Electrical microthruster have been widely applied in micro and nano-satellites, dute to its light weight and low cost. A microthruster based on ferroelectrical plasma is developed to realized microscale Newton thrust applications. Measurement of thrust generated from the ferroelectric miro-plasma thruster(FMPT) is crtical for the design of FMPT. A charge collector based on capacitor charging principle is proposed to measure the ion current from the nozzle of the ferroelectric micro-plasma thruster(FMPT).","PeriodicalId":150449,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE 11th Annual International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2016.7758212","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Electrical microthruster have been widely applied in micro and nano-satellites, dute to its light weight and low cost. A microthruster based on ferroelectrical plasma is developed to realized microscale Newton thrust applications. Measurement of thrust generated from the ferroelectric miro-plasma thruster(FMPT) is crtical for the design of FMPT. A charge collector based on capacitor charging principle is proposed to measure the ion current from the nozzle of the ferroelectric micro-plasma thruster(FMPT).