Complex and dusty plasmas : from laboratory to space

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Series in plasma physics

Series in plasma physics.

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Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2010.

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xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

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9781420083118

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Dusty plasmas.

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Fortov, V. E.

Morfill, G. E.

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Dusty or complex plasmas are plasmas containing solid or liquid charged particles referred to as dust. Naturally occurring in space, they are present in planetary rings and comet tails, as well as clouds found in the vicinity of artificial satellites and space stations. On a more earthly level, dusty plasmas are now being actively researched as dust plays a key role in technological plasma applications associated with etching technologies in microelectronics, as well as with production of thin films and nanoparticles.

Complex and Dusty Plasmas: From Laboratory to Space provides a balanced and consistent picture of the current status of the field by covering new developments in experimental and theoretical research. Drawing from research performed across the earth and even beyond by an internationally diverse group of pioneering researchers, this book covers a wealth of topics. It delves into:

Major types of complex plasmas in ground-based and microgravity experiments Properties of the magnetized, thermal, cryogenic, ultraviolet, nuclear-induced complex plasmas and plasmas with nonspherical particles Major forces acting on the particles and features of the particle dynamics in complex plasmas, as well as basic plasma-particle interactions, Recent research results on phase transitions between crystalline and liquid complex plasma states Astrophysical aspects of dusty plasmas and numerical simulation of their properties Dust as a source of contamination in many applications including reactors

An important feature of this work is the detailed discussion of unique experimental and theoretical aspects of complex plasmas related to the investigations under microgravity conditions performed onboard Mir and ISS space stations. Much of what we know today would not be

Author Notes

Fortov, Vladimir E.; Morfill, Gregor E.

Vladimir E. Fortov and Alexey G. Khrapak and Vladimir I. Molotkov and Gregor E. Morfill and Oleg F. Petrov and Hubertus M. Thomas and Olga S. Vaulina and Sergey V. VladimirovSergey A. Khrapak and Alexey V. IvlevAlexey V. IvlevAlexey V. Ivlev and Sergey A. KhrapakAlexey V Ivlev and Gregor E. Morfill and Sergey A. KhrapakMihály Horányi and Ove Havnes and Gregor E. MorfillOlga S. Vaulina and Boris A. KlumovOleg E Petrov and Olga S VaulinaVladimir E. Fortov and Alexey G. Khrapak and Sergey V. Vladimirov

Introduction	p. xi
1 Types of experimental complex plasmas	p. 1
1.1 Complex plasmas in rf discharges	p. 3
1.1.1 The GEC-RF-Reference Cell	p. 4
1.1.2 Symmetrically driven rf discharge for microgravity experiments	p. 10
1.1.3 Complex plasmas in inductively coupled discharges	p. 15
1.2 Complex plasmas in dc discharges	p. 17
1.2.1 Ground-based experiments	p. 17
1.2.2 Microgravity experiments	p. 31
1.3 Thermal complex plasmas	p. 36
1.3.1 Source of thermal plasma with macroparticles	p. 37
1.3.2 Plasma diagnostics	p. 38
1.3.3 Particle diagnostics	p. 38
1.3.4 Spatially ordered structures in thermal plasmas	p. 40
1.4 Other types of complex plasmas	p. 41
1.4.1 Complex plasmas at cryogenic temperatures	p. 41
1.4.2 Experiments with complex plasma induced by UV-radiation	p. 45
1.4.3 Nuclear-induced and track complex plasmas	p. 49
1.4.4 Particle structures in a dc discharge in the presence of magnetic fields	p. 53
1.4.5 "Small" dust structures: Coulomb or Yukawa clusters and balls	p. 58
1.4.6 Complex plasmas with non-spherical particles	p. 65
1.5 Formation and growth of dust particles	p. 73
2 Basic plasma-particle interactions	p. 99
2.1 Charging of particles in complex plasmas	p. 99
2.1.1 Charging in collisionless plasmas	p. 100
2.1.2 Effect of plasma collisionality on the particle charging	p. 111
2.1.3 Experimental determination of the particle charge	p. 118
2.1.4 Emission processes	p. 123
2.1.5 Quasineutrality of complex plasmas	p. 125
2.1.6 Fluctuations of the particle charge	p. 125
2.2 Electric potential distribution around a particle	p. 127
2.2.1 Isotropic plasmas	p. 127
2.2.2 Anisotropic plasmas	p. 133
2.3 Interparticle interactions	p. 136
2.3.1 Isotropic plasmas	p. 136
2.3.2 Anisotropic plasmas	p. 138
2.3.3 Experiments	p. 139
2.4 Momentum exchange	p. 141
2.4.1 Momentum transfer cross section	p. 141
2.4.2 Momentum exchange rates	p. 147
2.4.3 Momentum exchange diagram	p. 149
2.5 Forces on particles	p. 153
2.5.1 Ion drag force	p. 153
2.5.2 Other forces	p. 166
2.6 Particle surface temperature	p. 168
3 Particle dynamics	p. 185
3.1 Vertical oscillations in an rf sheath	p. 185
3.2 Non-Hamiltonian dynamics	p. 186
3.2.1 Role of variable charges	p. 186
3.2.2 Role of plasma wakes	p. 191
3.3 Kinetics of ensembles with variable charges	p. 193
4 Waves and instabilities	p. 199
4.1 Wave excitation technique	p. 200
4.2 Waves in ideal (gaseous) complex plasmas	p. 201
4.2.1 Major wave modes	p. 202
4.2.2 Damping and instabilities	p. 205
4.3 Waves in strongly coupled (liquid) complex plasmas	p. 210
4.3.1 Longitudinal waves	p. 212
4.3.2 Transverse waves	p. 213
4.4 Waves in plasma crystals	p. 214
4.4.1 One-dimensional strings	p. 214
4.4.2 Two-dimensional triangular lattice	p. 215
4.4.3 Three-dimensional plasma crystals	p. 220
4.4.4 Instabilities in plasma crystals	p. 221
4.5 Nonlinear waves	p. 222
4.5.1 Ion solitons and shocks	p. 222
4.5.2 Dust solitons and shocks	p. 223
4.5.3 Mach cones	p. 227
5 Kinetic studies of fluids and solids with complex plasmas	p. 239
5.1 Phase diagram of complex plasma	p. 240
5.2 Strongly coupled fluids	p. 244
5.2.1 Atomistic dynamics in fluids	p. 245
5.2.2 Kinetics of stable shear flows	p. 249
5.2.3 Kinetics of heat transport	p. 252
5.2.4 Hydrodynamics at the discreteness limit	p. 255
5.2.5 Confined fluids	p. 261
5.2.6 Electrorheological fluids	p. 263
5.3 Solids	p. 268
5.3.1 Atomistic dynamics in crystals	p. 268
5.3.2 Scalings in 2D crystallization	p. 270
5.3.3 Dynamics of dislocations	p. 274
5.3.4 3D crystallization	p. 276
6 Dusty plasmas in the solar system	p. 291
6.1 Introduction	p. 291
6.2 Noctilucent clouds	p. 291
6.3 Planetary rings	p. 296
6.3.1 Simplified dynamics	p. 296
6.3.2 Saturn's E-ring	p. 299
6.3.3 Spokes	p. 302
6.4 Lunar surface	p. 306
6.4.1 Imaging	p. 307
6.4.2 Plasma and electric field measurements	p. 309
6.4.3 Dust measurements	p. 312
6.4.4 The lunar dust environment	p. 314
6.5 Summary	p. 315
7 Numerical simulation of complex plasmas	p. 325
7.1 Molecular dynamics simulations of complex plasmas: Basic concepts	p. 325
7.1.1 Methods of simulation of the dynamics of dust particles	p. 325
7.1.2 Equations of motion of dust particles	p. 326
7.2 Numerical simulation of spatial correlations between dust particles	p. 329
7.2.1 Pair and three-particle correlations functions	p. 329
7.2.2 Pair correlation functions and phase states of the particle subsystems	p. 334
7.3 Transport properties of complex plasma: Numerical study	p. 337
7.3.1 Transport of particles in non-ideal media	p. 337
7.3.2 Diffusivity	p. 339
7.3.3 Viscosity	p. 344
7.4 Complex plasmas in narrow channels	p. 347
7.4.1 2D complex plasmas in narrow channels	p. 347
7.4.2 3D complex plasmas in narrow channels	p. 351
7.5 Crystallization waves in complex plasmas	p. 357
7.5.1 Local order analysis of 3D data	p. 362
7.6 On the role of dust in cometary plasma	p. 367
7.7 Electronegative complex plasmas	p. 375
8 Diagnostics of complex plasma	p. 385
8.1 Introduction	p. 385
8.2 Light scattering and absorption measurements	p. 385
8.2.1 Mie theory	p. 386
8.2.2 Determination of the size, concentration, and refractive index of particles	p. 388
8.3 Spectral methods of determination of particle parameters	p. 392
8.3.1 Particle temperature	p. 392
8.3.2 The spectrometric method of the particle size and refractive index determination	p. 396
8.3.3 Simultaneous determination of the particle size, refractive index, and temperature	p. 396
8.3.4 The effect of particles on the determination of the concentration of alkali metal atoms and the gas temperature	p. 397
9 Applications	p. 401
9.1 Technological and industrial aspects	p. 401
9.2 Dust in fusion reactors	p. 404
9.3 Nuclear photovoltaic electric battery	p. 407
Index	p. 413

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