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Agglomeration of Dust Particles in the Lab

Matthews, Lorin; Carmona-Reyes, Jorge; Land, Victor; Hyde, Truell (AIP Conference Proceedings, )

Dust aggregates are formed in a laboratory plasma as monodisperse spheres are accelerated in a self-excited dust density wave. The asymmetric charge on the aggregates causes them to rotate as they interact with the sheath ...
Crystallization Dynamics of a Single Layer Complex Plasma

Hartmann, Peter; Douglass, Angela; Carmona-Reyes, Jorge; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell; Kovacs, Aniko; Donko, Zoltan (Physical Review Letters, )

We report a series of complex (dusty) plasma experiments, aimed at the study of the detailed time evolution of the recrystallization process following a rapid quench of a two-dimensional dust liquid. The experiments were ...
Determination of the levitation limits of dust particles within the sheath in complex plasma experiments

Douglass, Angela; Land, Victor; Qiao, Ke; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (Physics of Plasmas, )

Experiments are performed in which dust particles are levitated at varying heights above the powered electrode in a radio frequency plasma discharge by changing the discharge power. The trajectories of particles dropped ...
Digital Imaging and Analysis of Dusty Plasmas

Boesse, Carolyn; Henry, Michael; Hyde, Truell; Matthews, Lorin (Advances in Space Research, )

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those found in planetary rings or cometary environments, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of interparticle potential energy to average kinetic energy ...
Dust particle charge in plasma with ion flow and electron depletion near plasma boundaries

Douglass, Angela; Land, Victor; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (Physics of Plasmas, )

The charge on micrometer-sized dust particles suspended in plasma above the powered electrode of radio-frequency discharges is studied. Using a self-consistent fluid model, the plasma profiles above the electrode are ...
Dusty Plasma Correlation Function Experiment

Smith, Bernard; Vasut, John; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell; Reay, Jerry; Cook, Mike; Schmoke, Jimmy (Advances in Space Research, )

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those in protostellar clouds, planetary rings or cometary environments, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of the inter-particle potential energy to ...
The effect of dust charge variation, due to ion flow and electron depletion, on dust levitation

Land, Victor; Douglass, Angela; Qiao, Ke; Matthews, Lorin; Hyd, Truell (AIP Conference Proceedings, )

Using a fluid model, the plasma densities, electron temperature and ion Mach number in front of a powered electrode in different plasma discharges is computed. The dust charge is computed using OML theory for Maxwellian ...
The effect of electrode heating on the discharge parameters in complex plasma experiments

Land, Victor; Carmona Reyes, Jorge; Creel, James; Schmoke, Jimmy; Cook, Mike; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (IOP Publishing, )

Thermophoresis is a tool often applied in complex plasma experiments. One of the usual stated benefits over other experimental tools is that electrode temperature changes required to induce thermophoresis do not directly ...
Effect of Multi-Sized Dust Distribution on Local Plasma Sheath Potentials

Sun, Meihong; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (Advances in Space Research, )

This work investigates the modification of a plasma sheath in a complex plasma due to the presence of dust particles with a specified size distribution. A self-consistent model for the plasma sheath is combined with a ...
Experimental and computational characterization of a modified GEC cell for dusty plasma experiments

Land, Victor; Shen, Erica; Smith, Bernard; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (New Journal of Physics, )

A self-consistent fluid model developed for simulations of microgravity dusty plasma experiments has for the first time been used to model asymmetric dusty plasma experiments in a modified Gaseous Electronics Conference ...
Fluid modeling of void closure in microgravity noble gas complex plasmas

Land, Victor; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell; Bolser, Diana (Physics Review E, )

A self-consistent dusty plasma fluid model has been extended to incorporate all the noble gases as the carrier gas. An analysis of void closure in complex plasma composed of these gases over a wide range of experimental ...
Glow and Dust in Plasma Boundaries

Land, Victor; Douglass, Angela; Qiao, Ke; Zhang, Zhuanhao; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell W. (IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, )

The sheath region is probed in different complex plasma experiments using dust particles in addition to the measurement of the optical emission originating from the plasma. The local maximum in the optical emission coincides ...
Mode Couplings and Conversions for Horizontal Dust Particle Pairs in Complex Plasmas

Qiao, Ke; Kong, Jie; Zhang, Zhuanhao; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, )

The normal modes for horizontal dust particle pairs in a complex plasma are investigated using two methods, a numerical calculation and a molecular dynamics simulation. The ion wakefield downstream of each particle and the ...
A New Inductively Driven Plasma Generator (IPG6)—Setup and Initial Experiments

Dropmann, Michael; Herdrich, Georg; Laufer, Rene; Puckert, Dominik; Fulge, Hannes; Fasoulas, Stefanos; Schmoke, Jimmy; Cook, Mike; Hyde, Truell W. (IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, )

As part of the partnership between the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER) at Baylor University and the Institute of Space Systems (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart, a new design for ...
One-dimensional vertical dust strings in a glass box

Kong, Jie; Hyde, Truell; Matthews, Lorin; Qiao, Ke; Zhang, Zhuanhao (Physical Review E, )

The oscillation spectrum of a one-dimensional vertical dust string formed inside a glass box on top of the lower electrode in a gaseous electronics conference (GEC) reference cell was studied. A mechanism for creating a ...
Phase Transitions in a Dusty Plasma with Two Distinct Particle Sizes

Smith, Bernard; Hyde, Truell; Matthews, Lorin; Reay, Jerry; Cook, Mike; Schmoke, Jimmy (Advances in Space Research, )

In semiconductor manufacturing, contamination due to particulates significantly decreases the yield and quality of device fabrication, therefore increasing the cost of production. Dust particle clouds can be found in almost ...
Probing the sheath electric field using thermophoresis in dusty plasma

Land, Victor; Smith, Bernie; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, )

A self-consistent dusty plasma fluid model has been extended to incorporate all the oble gases as the carrier gas. An analysis of void closure in complex plasma composed of these gases over a wide range of experimental ...
Simple method to measure the interaction potential of dielectric grains in a dusty plasma

Zhang, Zhuanhao; Qiao, Ke; Kong, Jie; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (Physics Review E, )

A simple minimally perturbative method is introduced which provides the ability to experimentally measure both the radial confining potential and the interaction potential between two individual dust particles, levitated ...
Vertical Interaction Between Dust Particles Confined in a Glass Box in a Complex Plasma

Kong, Jie; Qiao, Ke; Carmona-Reyes, Jorge; Douglass, Angela; Zhang, Zhuanhao; Matthews, Lorin; Hyde, Truell (IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, )

In this experiment, falling particle trajectories within and without a glass box placed on the lower electrode in a Gaseous Electronics Conference reference cell are recorded and analyzed, and the electrostatic forces ...