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PEPL is looking for new doctoral candidates for the Fall 2022.   Students with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, or aerospace engineering are strongly encouraged.  Prospective students are invited to review current lab research...

We have a new paper about Krypton Hall thrusters in the Journal of Applied Physics

Congratulations to Chris Sercel, Tate Gill, Joshua Woods, and Benjamin Jorns for winning Electric Propulsion Best Paper at the AIAA 2021 Propulsion and Energy...

Congratulations to Leanne Su for winning a Student Poster Award at the 2021 Gaseous Electronics Conference! A PDF of the poster can be found...

Check out our recent article in the Journal of Applied Physics special issue on the “Physics of Electric Propulsion.”

We had a number of papers at this year's AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum Zachariah A. Brown and Benjamin A. Jorns:  “Experimental measurements of the contribution of plasma turbulence to anomalous collision frequency in a Hall thruster” Alex A. Gorodetsky, Collin B....

We just put out a technical note about rotating instabilities in hollow cathode plumes. Check it out!

Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Jorns, PEPL alumnus, Dr. Ethan Dale, and PEPL doctoral candidate, Thomas Marks, who received the 2020 Best Paper Award in Electric Propulsion from the AIAA for their paper, “A Predictive Hall Thruster Model Enabled by Data-Driven...

We have another publication out about the X3 nested Hall thruster!