Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Titolo
Design of a B-dot probe for RF plasma thrusters
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA CIVILE E INDUSTRIALE
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE
Parole chiave
- b-dot probe
- calibration
- helicon thruster
- helicon wave
- Helmholtz coil
- network analyzer
Data inizio appello
10/02/2025
Riassunto (Italiano)
In this work, a B-dot probe was studied, designed, built, and employed to measure the time-varying magnetic field within the plume of a Helicon thruster. The probe was manually constructed and calibrated using a network analyzer. The experiments have been done in a vacuum chamber on the prototype HPT05M and the various measurements have been taken using an oscilloscope. Following the experimental part, the collected data were processed to determine with a specific code to get the intensity and direction of the magnetic field at various positions within the plume.
