• DocumentCode
    1276355
  • Title

    Modeling Facility Effects on Secondary Electron Emission Experiment

  • Author

    Wang, Joseph ; Wang, Pu ; Belhaj, Mohamed ; Velez, Jean-Charles Mateo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Astronaut. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    2773
  • Lastpage
    2780
  • Abstract
    Secondary electron emission is one of the most fundamental problems in spacecraft charging. An accurate prediction of secondary electron yield at low-energy electron impingement has long been a challenging problem due to both the complexity of the process and the difficulty in carrying out accurate measurements in a vacuum chamber. This paper discusses a correlated modeling and experimental study to investigate the facility effects on secondary electron emission yield measurement in a vacuum chamber.
  • Keywords
    secondary electron emission; spacecraft charging; low-energy electron impingement; process complexity; secondary electron emission experiment; spacecraft charging; vacuum chamber; Electric potential; Electron beams; Electron emission; Extraterrestrial measurements; IEEE Potentials; Materials; Mathematical model; Charging; particle in cell (PIC); secondary electron emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2012.2211041
  • Filename
    6290418