磁场对螺旋波等离子体波和能量吸收影响的数值研究

本文考察在径向电子数密度呈抛物形分布的情况下,外加稳恒磁场,射频通过螺旋波天线在等离子体中激发电磁波的传播性质.采用线性扰动波假设,数值求解Maxwell方程组,得到80—800 G(1 G=10-4T)磁场条件下等离子体中径向电、磁场强度及能量沉积密度的分布情形.计算结果表明,磁场增大(80→800G)时,螺旋波受到的阻尼较小,可深入等离子体传播;Trivelpiece-Gould(TG)波受到的阻尼增大,在等离子体-真空边界处衰减增强;整体的能量吸收向边界集中.磁感应强度小于100 G时,TG波可深入主等离子体区传播,等离子体径向能量吸收相对均匀.     

螺旋波激发甲烷等离子体光谱诊断

利用螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积（LPP-CVD）技术,以甲烷和氦气为反应气体产生等离子体。通过采集到甲烷的可见光到紫外发射光谱,对甲烷等离子体进行原位诊断,发现存在CH、Hα及Hβ等碎片粒子的光辐射,同时,分析了不同入射功率、气压下CH粒子以及Hβ、Hγ的相对强度变化情况。结果表明：CH粒子的相对强度随着射频功率是先增大而后减小,随工作气压的增大而逐渐减小;随气压及功率的增加,Hβ、Hγ相对强度变化的总体趋势都是先增加而后减小的。     

螺旋波激发甲烷等离子体光谱诊断

利用螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积(LPP-CVD)技术,以甲烷和氦气为反应气体产生等离子体.通过采集到甲烷的可见光到紫外发射光谱,对甲烷等离子体进行原位诊断,发现存在CH、Ha及Hβ等碎片粒子的光辐射,同时,分析了不同入射功率、气压下CH粒子以及Hβ、Hγ的相对强度变化情况.结果表明:CH粒子的相对强度随着射频功率是先增大而后减小,随工作气压的增大而逐渐减小;随气压及功率的增加,Hβ、Hγ相对强度变化的总体趋势都是先增加而后减小的.     

螺旋波激发氢等离子体光谱诊断

利用一套螺旋波激发等离子体化学气相沉积（HWP—CVD）发生装置及发射光谱采集装置，原位诊断了不同入射功率、气压、氢气流量下氢等离子体光谱，研究了激发态氢原子的变化情况、氢分子振动温度的变化和激发态氢分子的相对分布。结果表明：     

螺旋波激发等离子体源的原理和应用

介绍了一种低气压，高密度等离子体源－螺旋波激发等离子体源，讲述了它的结构位形，该离子源在实际中的应用以及目前研究状况。     

螺旋波激发氢等离子体光谱诊断

 利用螺旋波等离子体化学气相沉积(HWP-CVD)技术,以氢气为反应气体产生等离子体。通过采集氢的可见到紫外发射光谱,对等离子体进行了原位诊断,由氢Balmer系分析得到了不同实验参数对激发态氢原子相对密度的影响,通过对Fulcher带的分析,得到实验参数对氢振动温度的影响。结果表明：低压氢等离子体状态可借用日冕模型来诊断;激发态氢原子密度随入射功率增加而增加,随压强增加而减少,氢分子振动温度随压强增加先增大后减小;电子温度和电子密度是低压氢等离子体状态变化的关键因素。     

Investigation on the optimal configuration design and discharge characteristics of the helicon plasma tube

Helicon discharge is characterized by its high ionization efficiency. In order to obtain the desired density, the configuration design of the helicon discharge tube is carried out, and the discharge characteristics are then studied to explore the correlation between the plasma parameters and the input discharge parameters. Finite‐length helicon discharge theory is employed to calculate the plasma resistance R _p, and then the optimal tube length L _s, the radius r _p, and the tube–antenna gap d are confirmed. The partial and energy loss mechanisms of the tube are investigated based on low‐pressure discharge particle collision theory. The results show that, for a 10‐cm‐long Nagoya III type antenna, with a tube radius of 4 cm and length of 20 cm, the R _p versus n _e curves have peak values at n _e higher than 10¹² cm⁻³ when the magnetic field intensity B ₀ ≥ 200 G. We find that a local minimum of P _loss exists when p ₀ is ∼1.5–3.0 mTorr; meanwhile, the radial confinement reduces T _e and P _loss at constant p ₀.     

基于Kr工质的离子推力器栅极PIC仿真

Kr是新型低成本离子推力器的优选工质之一。采用三维PIC粒子模拟方法对Kr等离子体在栅极系统中的输运过程进行仿真,并与Xe工质仿真结果进行对比,分析工质类型对束流分布、离子通过率、发散角损失和推力等参数特性和分布的影响。结果表明：相比于Xe工质,Kr工质条件下,屏栅上游鞘层区域更大,屏栅离子通过率略有上升;Kr+在加速栅孔轴向速度较大,径向位移小,撞击加速栅几率小,加速栅电流相对较小;Kr工质和Xe工质的发散角损失相当,但Kr工质工作电流区域更高;相比于Xe工质,相同功率条件下Kr工质的推力值约降低20%。     

Calculation of ion energy distributions of argon excimer ions generated in helicon plasma

A program is developed to calculate the ion energy distributions （IEDs） of Ar2^＋ making use of a simplified kinetic model with a combination of Monte Carlo method. Several coefficients are used to realize good match between the calculated and measured results. Some important assumptions are confirmed： argon excimer ions have short lifetime, hence they are formed in a short range before the collecting electrode. The excimer ions that encounter collisions will be discarded because they turn to other ion species after they collide with argon atoms. From the calculated results some plasma parameters such as the cross section or neutral density in discharge could be evaluated.     

Kinetic study of instability growth rate in a helicon plasma discharge source

In this work, a kinetic model is developed to study the effects of the radio frequency antenna wavenumber, helicon plasma electron density, as well as their drift velocity and temperature on the instability increment rate of the helicon wave in both longitudinal and transverse directions. The ion acoustic (IA) wave frequencies and wavenumbers of the helicon waves are obtained when the maximum wave energy is deposited on the plasma ions. Moreover, it is shown that, at the IA wavenumber and frequencies, while the longitudinal instability increment rates for both the helicon and IA waves are ignorable, the transverse instability increment rate for both the helicon and IA wave increases. Besides, the longitudinal instability increment rate for the helicon or IA wave has non‐zero resonant frequencies. On the other hand, the transverse instability increment rate of helicon or IA wave can be neglected. Furthermore, it is observed that, while both the imaginary part of longitudinal permittivity and longitudinal instability increment rate are not influenced by the electron temperature, their transverse component increases linearly with the electron temperature. In addition, the imaginary part of transverse permittivity increases almost linearly with the drift velocity of the plasma electrons.     

Particle‐in‐cell simulation of an optimized high‐efficiency multistage plasma thruster

Electric propulsion attracts increasing attention in contemporary space missions as an interesting alternative to chemical propulsion because of the high efficiency it offers. The High‐Efficiency Multistage Plasma thruster, a class of cusped field thruster, is able to operate at different anode voltages and operation points and thereby generate different levels of thrust in a stable and efficient way. Since experiments of such thrusters are inherently expensive, multi‐objective design optimization (MDO) is of great interest. Several optimized thruster designs have resulted from a MDO model based on a zero‐dimensional (0D) power balance model. However, the MDO solutions do not warrant self‐consistency due to their dependency on estimation from empirical modelling based on former experimental studies. In this study, one of the optimized thruster designs is investigated by means of particle‐in‐cell (PIC) analysis to examine the predicted performance characteristics with self‐consistent simulations. The 0D power balance model is used to develop additional diagnostics for the PIC simulations to improve the physics analysis. Using input parameters for the 0D power balance model from the PIC simulations allows further improvement for the design optimization.     

外加磁场微波等离子推力器内流场数值模拟

为了提高微波等离子推力器性能，改善等离子体对电磁波能量的吸收状况，提高核心区温度，提出外加磁场的方案，并对热等离子体进行了数值模拟.假设局域热平衡条件，采用Navier-Stokes，Maxwell和Saha方程，利用压力修正的半隐格式和时域有限差分求解方法，建立了径向磁镜场下推力器内等离子体流场的数值计算模型.数值模拟结果表明：外加磁场后的磁感应强度小于0.5 T时，推力器内热等离子体核心区最高温度随磁感应强度的增加而迅速提高.外加磁场后的磁感应强度大于0.5 T时，核心区最高温度随磁感应强度的增加而缓慢提高.磁感应强度为0.5 T时，热等离子体核心区最高温度与不加磁场相比提高了24%.外加磁场对等离子体流场速度分布影响不大. 关键词： 等离子体模拟 等离子体相互作用 等离子体流动     

Experimental results of helicon sources

Helicon plasma sources are known as efficient generators of uniform and high density plasma.A helicon plasma source was developed for the investigation of plasma stripping and plasma lenses at the Institute of Modern Physics, CAS.In this paper, the characteristics of helicon plasma have been studied by using a Langmuir four-probe and a high plasma density up to 3.9×10~(13)/cm~3 has been achieved with the Nagoya type Ⅲ antenna.In the experiment, several important phenomena were found: (1) for a given magnetic induction intensity, the plasma density became greater with the increase of RF power; (2) helicon mode appeared at RF power between 300 W and 400 W; (3) the plasma density gradually tended to saturation as the RF power increased to the higher power; (4) a higher plasma density can be obtained by a good match between the RF power and the magnetic field distribution.The key issue is how to optimize the matching between the RF power and the magnetic field.Moreover, some tests on the extraction of ion beams were performed, and preliminary results are given.The problems which existed in the helicon ion source will be discussed and the increase in beam density will be expected by extraction system optimum.     

Experimental results of helicon source

Helicon plasma sources are known as efficient generators of uniform and high density plasma. A helicon plasma source was developed for the investigation of plasma stripping and plasma lenses at the Institute of Modern Physics, CAS. In this paper, the characteristics of helicon plasma have been studied by using a Langmuir four-probe and a high plasma density up to 3.9× 10^13/cm^3 has been achieved with the Nagoya type III antenna. In the experiment, several important phenomena were found： （1） for a given magnetic induction intensity, the plasma density became greater with the increase of RF power; （2） helicon mode appeared at RF power between 300 W and 400 W; （3） the plasma density gradually tended to saturation as the RF power increased to the higher power; （4） a higher plasma density can be obtained by a good match between the RF power and the magnetic field distribution. The key issue is how to optimize the matching between the RF power and the magnetic field. Moreover, some tests on the extraction of ion beams were performed, and preliminary results are given. The problems which existed in the helicon ion source will be discussed and the increase in beam density will be expected by extraction system optimum.     

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针对准中性Vlasov-Poisson系统中多尺度物理参数共存的问题开展研究,采用渐近保持格式推导出与Vlasov方程相耦合的Poisson方程。数值模拟了一维等离子体在真空中的膨胀,比较了渐近保持PIC算法与传统PIC算法模拟结果的异同。结果表明：两种算法在满足多尺度中小尺度量限制的前提下,其结果保持高度一致;且在克服小尺度量束缚时,渐近保持PIC算法依然可以正确地模拟等离子体的物理行为,大大节省了计算时间。