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  1. Swirl Torque Projections for the 12 kW Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) Hall Thruster

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin

  2. Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Driven High-Frequency Electrostatic Waves in a Hollow Cathode Plume

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin, Robert Lobbia

  3. Insights from Collisional-Radiative Models of Neutral and Singly Ionized Xenon in Hall Thrusters

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, May 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin

  4. Impact of low-frequency oscillations on ion energy in a high-power magnetically shielded Hall thruster

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Vernon Chaplin

  5. Accelerator Grid Life Modeling of T6 Ion Thruster for BepiColombo

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

    Vernon Chaplin

  6. Anomalous Ion Heating and Pole Erosion in the 12.5-kW Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS)

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin

  7. Electric Propulsion for the Psyche Mission: Development Activities and Status

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin

  8. Maxar Electric Propulsion Development for Deep Space

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Vernon Chaplin

  9. Application of Hall Thrusters with Modulated Oscillations

    Article • August 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Jacob Simmonds, Vernon Chaplin

  10. Time-resolved ion velocity measurements in a high-power Hall thruster using laser-induced fluorescence with transfer function averaging

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, June 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Vernon Chaplin

  11. Accelerating 23,000 hours of Ground Test Backsputtered Carbon on a Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster

    Article • August 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Robert Lobbia, Vernon Chaplin

  12. Particle-in-cell simulations of Hall thruster acceleration and near plume regions

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, December 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Vernon Chaplin

  13. Laser-induced fluorescence measurements of acceleration zone scaling in the 12.5 kW HERMeS Hall thruster

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, November 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Robert Lobbia, Vernon Chaplin

  14. 3D Simulations of Ion Thruster Accelerator Grid Erosion Accounting for Charge Exchange Ion Space Charge

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

    Vernon Chaplin