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 …

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 …

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 …

Results of an analytical and numerical study of the nonresonant, modified plasma two‐
stream instability, which is driven by relative streaming of electrons and ions across a …

In Paper I [T. Lafleur et al., Phys. Plasmas 23, 053502 (2016)], we demonstrated (using
particle-in-cell simulations) the definite correlation between an anomalously high cross-field …

The motion of an ion in a coherent lower hybrid wave (characterized by| k_parallel|<<|
k_perp| and omega>> Omega_i) in a tokamak plasma is studied. For ions satisfying v_perp> …

Microturbulence has been implicated in anomalous transport at the exit of the Hall thruster,
and recent simulations have shown the presence of an azimuthal wave which is believed to …

The linear theory of parametric instabilities relevant to radiofrequency heating near the lower‐
hybrid frequency of tokamak‐type plasmas is presented. The dispersion relations are …