Computation of dust charge and potential on a static spherical dust grain immersed in rf discharges

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Ikkurthi, V R ^a   Matyash, K ^b   Melzer, A ^a   Schneider, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; INERT GASES; PLASMA THEORY; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CURRENT MODELS; DEBYE LENGTHS; DUST CHARGES; DUST GRAINS; ELASTIC AND INELASTIC COLLISIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RF DISCHARGES;

DUST;

EID: 58149218654     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3041659     Document Type: Article

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