Parabolic plasma sheath potentials and their implications for the charge on levitated dust particles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2518-2521

  Tomme, E B ^a,b   Law, D A ^a   Annaratone, B M ^a   Allen, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DUSTY PLASMAS; PARABOLIC ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

EID: 0034683282     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2518     Document Type: Article

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