Department
Physics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-23-2012
Abstract
Experiments are performed in which dust particles are levitated at varying heights above the powered electrode in a radio frequency plasma discharge by changing the discharge power. The trajectories of particles dropped from the top of the discharge chamber are used to reconstruct the vertical electric force acting on the particles. The resulting data, together with the results from a self-consistent fluid model, are used to determine the lower levitation limit for dust particles in the discharge and the approximate height above the lower electrode where quasineutrality is attained, locating the sheath edge. These results are then compared with current sheath models. It is also shown that particles levitated within a few electron Debye lengths of the sheath edge are located outside the linearly increasing portion of the electric field.
Publication Title
Physics of Plasmas
Publisher Statement
Copyright 2012 by the American Institute of Physics.
The following article appeared in Douglass, A., Land, V., Qiao, K., Matthews, L., & Hyde, T. (2012). Determination of the levitation limits of dust particles within the sheath in complex plasma experiments. Physics Of Plasmas, 19(1), 013707. doi:10.1063/1.3677360 and may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/19/1/10.1063/1.3677360.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3677360
Recommended Citation
Douglass, Angela; Land, Victor; Qiao, Ke; Matthews, Lorin; and Hyde, Truell, "Determination of the Levitation Limits of Dust Particles within the Sheath in Complex Plasma Experiments" (2012). Articles. 34.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/articles/34
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