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  1. Investigation of Hall and combined mode operations in a multimode acceleration coaxial (MAC) thruster under chamber background pressure

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, September 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Shinatora Cho

  2. Keeper Ignition and Discharge Characteristics of Hollow Cathode Center-Mounted on Hall Thruster

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, March 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  3. Characterization of a Capillary Flow Controller for Electric Propulsion

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, July 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Shinatora Cho

  4. Performance Evaluation of a Two-Kilowatt Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  5. External Discharge Plasma Thruster

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, July 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Preliminary Investigation of an External Discharge Plasma Thruster Yushi Hamada, Burak Karadag, Prof. Kimiya Komurasaki, Shinatora Cho

  6. Preliminary Investigation of an External Discharge Plasma Thruster

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof. Kimiya Komurasaki, Burak Karadag, Preliminary Investigation of an External Discharge Plasma Thruster Yushi Hamada, Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  7. Laboratory Testing of Hall Thrusters for All-electric Propulsion Satellite and Deep Space Explorers

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  8. The Effects of Cathode Boundary Condition on Particle Simulation of a SPT-100-like Hall Thruster

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  9. Numerical and Experimental Study on Discharge Characteristics of High-Current Hollow Cathode

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho

  10. Development of a hybrid particle-continuum kinetic method for Hall thruster discharge plasmas

    Article • July 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Shinatora Cho

  11. Parametric Kinetic Simulation of an IHI High Specific Impulse SPT-Type Hall Thruster

    Article • July 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Ikkoh Funaki, Shinatora Cho