Hall thrusters are very efficient and competitive electric propulsion devices for satellites and
are currently in use in a number of telecommunications and government spacecraft. Their …

In the last 30 years, numerical models have revealed different physical mechanisms
involved in the Hall thruster functioning leading to a bridge between analytical …

The 2022 Roadmap is the next update in the series of Plasma Roadmaps published by
Journal of Physics D with the intent to identify important outstanding challenges in the field of …

This paper provides perspectives on recent progress in understanding the physics of
devices in which the external magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the discharge …

Using a 1D particle-in-cell simulation with perpendicular electric, E 0, and magnetic, B 0,
fields, and modelling the azimuthal direction (ie, the E 0× B 0 direction), we study the cross …

The E× B Electron Drift Instability (E× B EDI), also called Electron Cyclotron Drift Instability,
has been observed in recent particle simulations of Hall thrusters and is a possible …

Partially-magnetized plasmas with magnetized electrons and non-magnetized ions are
common in Hall thrusters for electric propulsion and magnetron material processing devices …

Particle based simulations are indispensable tools for numerical studies of charged particle
swarms and low-temperature plasma sources. The main advantage of such approaches is …

The current status and challenges of the discharge plasma modeling capabilities in Hall
effect thrusters (HETs) are reviewed. Partially magnetized plasmas in HETs present unique …

In this paper we propose a representative simulation test-case of E× B discharges
accounting for plasma wall interactions with the presence of both the electron cyclotron drift …