[19p-C102-1~9] Recent progresses in development of electron sources and their novel applications

[19p-C102-5] Development of Micro Space Propulsion Using Electron Source Fabrication Techniques

〇Yoshinori Takao¹, Naoki Inoue^1,2, Kazuma Emoto¹, Ryohei Yamada¹, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya³, Masayoshi Nagao², Katsuhisa Murakami² (1.YNU, 2.AIST, 3.Kyoto Univ.)

Keywords:ion sources, electron sources, propulsion

In recent years, micro/nanosatellites (< 50 kg) have been attracting increasing attention. In order to realize micro space propulsion, which can be mounted on such microspacecraft, ion sources producing high-density ion beams will be presented using fabrication techniques of field emitter array.