Test charge response of a dusty plasma with a grain size distribution

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 305, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 79-86

  Shafiq, Muhammad ^a   Raadu, Michael A ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complex plasmas; Dusty plasmas; Grain size distribution; Kappa distribution; Lorentzian distribution; Test charge response

Indexed keywords

DUST; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; PLASMA THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR PLASMAS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPLEX PLASMA; DUSTY PLASMAS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; KAPPA DISTRIBUTION; LORENTZIAN DISTRIBUTIONS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; GRAIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICS;

EID: 0037175603     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01392-0     Document Type: Article

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