DUSTY PLASMAS

"Remember, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return"  Genesis 3:19

     DUST PLASMA PRIMER

• What is a dusty plasma, where are dusty plasmas, and why are they important?  
   
• Physics Today Article on Dusty Plasmas (R. L. Merlino and J. A. Goree, July 2004)
   
• Dusty Plasmas and applications in space and industry, R. L. Merlino
  Chapter 5, in Plasma Physics Applied, Edited by C. Grabbe
  Transworld Research Network (Kerala, India, 2006) pages 74-110.
  
   

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  SOME VERY EARLY WORK ON DUSTY PLASMAS
   

• Electrodynamic Containment of Charged Particles -- An early Coulomb crystal (1959)
   
• First derivation of the dust charging equation from OML theory (Rosen, Phys. Fluids 5, 737, 1962)
   
• Dust Induced quenching of an afterglow plasma (Dimoff and Smy, Phys. Lett A 32, 13, 1970)
   

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  SOME EARLY PAPERS AND REVIEW ARTICLES ON DUSTY PLASMAS
   

• Dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas -- N. N. Rao, P. K. Shukla, and M. Y. Yu, Planet. Space Sci., 38, 543 (1990)
   
• Low-Frequency Electrostatic Waves in Dusty Plasmas, N. D'Angelo, Planet. Space Sci. 38, 1143 (1990).
   
• C. K. Goertz - Dusty Plasmas in the Solar System, Rev. Geophys. 27, 271, 1989.
   
• Proceedings of the First Capri Workshop on Dusty Plasmas, May 28- June 2 1989
   
• Discoveries of waves in dusty plasmas (A. A. Mamun and P. K. Shuklka, J. Plasma Physics doi:10:1017/s0022377810000589)
   

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  SOME WORK OF R. L. MERLINO ON DUSTY PLASMAS

   

• Reduction of the electron density due to presence of dust in a plasma
   
• A Dust Ball ( three dimensional Coulomb Crystal)
   
• Coulomb explosion of a spherical dust cluster  Reference
   
• Laboratory observation of the dust acoustic wave
   
• On the use of the Epstein formula for the neutral drag on dust particles
   
• Stationary dust density structures
   
• Video of dust acoustic waves excited in a drifting dust cloud  preprint
   
• Video of the Taylor instability in a dusty plasma  preprint
   

• RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTED IN PHYSICS OF PLASMAS -- Observation of the Taylor Instability in a Dusty Plasma
   

• Design considerations for a laboratory dusty plasma with magnetized dust particles
   

• "25 Years of Dust Acoustic Wave Physics- Plenary Talk"
  2014 International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, New Delhi, India March 3-7, 2014
  PPT, PDF, PDF6
   

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