Dawei Huang

Low Voltage Control of Micro-Ionic Thrusters Using the Electrostatic Induced Potential of the Collector

This work presents a low voltage (5 V) control method for micro-ionic thrusters with high operating voltage (>1 kV). When the collector of a micro-ionic thruster is connected to the negative electrode through a 5V switch circuit, and a high DC voltage (1-10 kV) is applied to the emitter, we can get