RECENT WORK

• Dusty Plasmas in the Laboratory, Industry and Space - Physics Today July 2004 - HTML  PDF
   

• Charging of dust in a negative ion plasma      Phys. Plasmas 13, 052118 (2006)
   

• Production of a negative ion plasma using C₇F₁₄    Rapid Communication in PRE
   

• Understanding Langmuir Probe I-V Characteristics - create your own probe characteristic!   Am. Journal Physics Article
   

• New measurements of the dust acoustic wave dispersion relation at high frequencies - interference of dust acoustic waves  Thomas et. al., Phys. Plasmas 14, 123701 (2007)
   

• A MAPLE program to compute the charge on a dust particle in a plasma
   

• Bayard-Alpert Ionization Gauge Sensitivity for C7F14 (J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 26(5), 1355,2008)
   

• Diffraction of dust acoustic waves by a circular cylinder (Physics of Plasmas 15, 090701, 2008).
   

• Instability of higher harmonic EIC waves in a negative ion plasma (Rosenberg & Merlino) Journal of Plasma Physics (75, 495, 2009).
   

• Measurement of the electron attachment rate for SF₆ and C₇F₁₄ at T_e = 0.2 eV, Journal of Chemical Physics
   

• Dust acoustic waves at 1000 frames/sec
   

• A cylindrical dust acoustic wave
   

• Laboratory observations of self-excited dust acoustic shocks
   

• Dust-Acoustic Waves: Visible Sound Waves, 2009 ICTP Summer School on Plasma Physics,  
  to appear in AIP Conference Proceedings
   

• Dust acoustic waves driven by an ion-dust streaming instability in laboratory discharge dusty plasmas
   

• Faster-than-Bohm cross-B electron transport in strongly pulsed plasmas|
   

• Effect of a floating circular aperture on a dc glow discharge dusty plasma, dust jets
  (APS DPP 2009 Poster), Paper in Phys. Plasmas
   

• Measurements of the power spectrum and dispersion relation for self-excited dust acoustic waves