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158 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, VOL. 43, NO. 1, JANUARY 2015 Development of a Novel Power Processing Unit for Hall Thrusters Naoji Yamamoto, Haruki Takegahara, Junichiro Aoyagi, Kyoichi Kuriki, Taichiro Tamida, and Hiroyuki Osuga, Member, IEEE Abstract — A newly developed power processing unit (PPU) offers the advantages of smaller size and lighter weight than conventional PPUs. The thrust performance of a magnetic layer type Hall thruster developed at Kyushu University with this new PPU was investigated; it showed a good performance as compared with conventional power supplies. The thrust to power ratio was improved to 58 mN/kW at discharge voltage of 150 V and anode xenon mass flow rate of 1.0 mg/s. Index Terms— Aerospace, Hall thruster, oscillation control, plasma, power processing unit (PPU). Fig. 1. Magnetic layer type Hall thruster developed at Kyushu University. I. INTRODUCTION IGH power electric propulsion systems will be in the Hpractical application phase in the near future. They will but harmonized with the Hall thrusters. In the Hall thruster, be used as the main propulsion system of the cargo for a discharge current naturally oscillates, due to the various potential manned mission to Mars [1], [2], as well as for the instabilities, with the largest oscillation being prey-predator construction of heavy space structures like a space solar power oscillation (ionization oscillation) [9]–[16]. Stability should system [