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  1. Effects of Tip Curvature on Multiple Emitted Ion Beams in Porous Ionic Liquid Electrospray Thrusters

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

    Yoshinori Takao

  2. Increased Thrust-to-Power Ratio of a Stepped-Diameter Helicon Plasma Thruster with Krypton Propellant

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

    Prof. Akira Ando, Yoshinori Takao

  3. Three-Dimensional Neutral and Charged Particle Simulations for a Miniature Microwave Discharge Neutralizer Using Water as the Propellant

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

    Yoshinori Takao

  4. Electron loss mechanisms in a miniature microwave discharge water neutralizer

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, June 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Yoshinori Takao

  5. Electron extraction enhancement via the magnetic field in a miniature microwave discharge neutralizer

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, December 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Yoshinori Takao

  6. High-performance planar-type electron source based on a graphene-oxide-semiconductor structure

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, May 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Yoshinori Takao

  7. Assessment of Micropropulsion System Unifying Water Ion Thrusters and Water Resistojet Thrusters

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, April 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Yoshinori Takao, Jun Asakawa, Keita Nishii

  8. Effects of negative ions on discharge characteristics of water plasma source for a miniature microwave discharge ion thruster

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, April 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Yoshinori Takao, Kengo Nakamura

  9. Computational design of a high-efficiency accelerator grid for a miniature ion thruster by full-aperture ion optics simulations

    Article • AIP Advances, March 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Kengo Nakamura, Yoshinori Takao

  10. Microplasma thruster powered by X-band microwaves

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, February 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Yoshinori Takao

  11. 3D Particle Simulation for Electron Extraction Mechanisms of a Miniature Microwave Discharge Neutralizer

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

    Prof. Kimiya Komurasaki, Yoshinori Takao

  12. Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of a miniature plasma source for a microwave discharge ion thruster

    Article • Plasma Sources Science and Technology, December 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Yoshinori Takao