Charge of dust on surfaces in plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages 271-279

  Wang, Xu ^a   Colwell, Josh ^b   Horanyi, Mihaly ^a   Robertson, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust grain; Electron flux; Faraday cup; Floating potential; Ion flux; Plasma charging

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRONS; FARADAY EFFECT; SOLAR WIND;

DUST PARTICLES; FLOATING POTENTIAL; ION FLUX;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247182461     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.891639     Document Type: Article

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