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A State of the Profession Position Paper Submitted to the
Astro2010 Decadal Survey of the National Research Council (NRC)
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RESEARCH |
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Our Research is
Currently Supported by the
United States Department of Energy
Please see my
laboratory homepage for more details about the
research performed in our plasma lab including photos of
our plasma devices.
All of my publications are listed here.
You can also download some of our papers
dealing with specific topics (pdf format):
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TOPIC |
REFERENCE | pdf file |
| Double Layers in a Diverging Magnetic Field | J. Geophys. Res. 91, 1599 (1986) | |
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Double Layers in a Plasma with Negative Ions |
Phys. Fluids B 2, 2865-2867, 1990 | |
| The shear modified ion acoustic mode | Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5282-5285 (2001) | smia.pdf |
| The Kelvin Helmholtz instability in a dusty plasma | Phys. Plasmas 8, 31 (2001) |
dustykh.pdf |
| Waves and instabilities in dusty plasmas | Phys. Plasmas 5, 1590 - 1606, (1998) |
w&ipop.pdf |
| Observation of the dust acoustic wave | Physics of Plasmas,2, 3563-3565, (1995) | daw1.pdf |
| Dust levitated in a double layer | Physics of Plasmas 2, 3261-3265, (1995) | dustindl.pdf |
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Dust acoustic waves in a DC glow discharge, measurement
of the dispersion relation |
Phys. Plasmas, 4, 2331-2335, (1997) | dawdisp.pdf |
| Interaction of moving and stationary objects with a dusty
plasma, the electrostatic sheath in a dusty plasma |
Phys. Plasmas 6, 1421-1426, (1999) | objindust.pdf |
| Dust ion acoustic shocks | Physics of Plasmas 7, 2370-2371 (2000) | diashocks.pdf |
| Charging of dust grains in a plasma, the effect of close packing | Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3093-3096, (1994) | dustq.pdf |
| Description of the rotating dust device | Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63, 5266-5269, (1992) | dpd.pdf |
| Ion acoustic shocks produced by a converging magnetic geometry | Physics of Plasmas 7, 2370-2371 (2000) | gradBshocks.pdf |
| IA shocks in negative ion plasmas | Phys.
Plasmas 5, 2868 (1998) |
nishocks.pdf |
Oscillations in a Dusty Plasma Medium |
Reviews of Radio Science, 2002 | RRS_20011.pdf |
| Shear Modified Ion Acoustic Instability | Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5282-5285 (2001) | smeic.pdf |
| Shear Driven EIC Instability | Phys. Lett. A 293, 260 (2002) |
sdeic.pdf |
| EIC Waves driven by parallel flow shear in a plasma with no electron current | Phys. Plasmas 11, 4501 (2004) |
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Generation of ‘spiky’ potential structures associated with multi-harmonic electrostatic ion cyclotron waves |
Phys. Plasmas 13, 012901 (2006) |
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Charging of dust in a negative ion plasma (APS DPP Poster Denver 2005) |
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PoP13,052118 (2006) (b) Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 091501 (2006) |
Poster PDF Text PDF PDF (a) PDF (b) |
| Production of negative ion plasmas using C7F14 | (a) Poster at APS
DPP 06 (b) Report |
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PDF (b) PDF (c) PRE 76, 035401(R), 2007 |
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Measurement of the ion drag force in a collisionless plasma with strong ion-grain coupling |
V. Nosenko, R. Fisher, , R. L. Merlino, S. Khrapak, G.
Morfill, K. Avinash, Phys. Plasmas 14, 103702 (2007). |
For further information email robert-merlino@uiowa.edu