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IOP Publishing, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 12(31), p. 125004, 2022

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aca714

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Two-dimensional electron temperature and density profiles of Hall thruster plume plasmas using tomographically reconstructed optical emission spectroscopy

Journal article published in 2022 by Dongho Lee ORCID, Jinwoo Kim ORCID, Guentae Doh ORCID, Changmin Shin ORCID, Wonho Choe ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Abstract Two-dimensional electron temperature and density profiles in the plume region of 300 W-class Hall thruster Ar plasmas were obtained using tomographically reconstructed optical emission intensity profiles combined with a collisional-radiative (CR) model. A total of 1242 lines of sight were used by rotating the thruster to apply inverse Radon transform-based tomographic reconstructions and Abel inversion. The reconstruction accuracy of the developed diagnostic system was evaluated using a priori images derived from plasma pictures, and the reconstruction error was less than 1% in the region of interest, exhibiting higher accuracy than the Abel inversion. From the Ar Hall thruster plasma, more than 12 different two-dimensional profiles of Ar I emission intensity within a spectral range of 600–1000 nm were obtained 6 mm from the exit plane of the thruster. A CR model using 31 allowed transitions at 15 different states from the ground state to the 2p i states was incorporated with the tomographically reconstructed emission intensity sets. Consequently, two-dimensional electron temperature and density profiles in the range of 5–18 eV and 2.0 × 1016–4.7 × 1017 m−3 were obtained, respectively, exhibiting reasonable agreement with the double Langmuir probe measurements.