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Title: Dust particle alignments and confinement in a radio frequency sheath

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1849796· OSTI ID:20698322
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  1. School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006 (Australia)

Stability of vertical and horizontal confinement of dust particles levitating in a rf sheath was studied experimentally. The experiments were carried out in an argon plasma discharge with micron-sized dust particles. Disruptions of particle arrangements were triggered by changing the discharge controlling parameters (pressure and peak-to-peak voltage) as well as by applying an additional bias to the confining electrode. Where the transition was triggered by changes of the discharge parameters, the transition from the horizontal to the vertical alignment has been found to be more pronounced than the reverse one. Clear hysteretic phenomena were observed for the transition triggered by changes of the confining voltage.

OSTI ID:
20698322
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 12, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1849796; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English