Physics of Dusty Plasmas: An Introduction (Paperback, 2019)

Introduction.- Charging of Dust Particles.- Outline.- OML Charging Currents.- Other Charging Currents.- The Particle as a Floating Probe.- Temporal Evolution of the Particle Charge.- Influence of Many Particles and Electron Depletion.- Forces and Trapping of Dust Particles.- Gravity.- Electric Field Force.- Ion Drag Force.- Neutral Drag Force.- Thermophoresis.- Laser Forces.- Compilation of Forces, Dust Levitation and Trapping.- Vertical Oscillations.- . Coulomb Crystallization.- The One-Component Plasma (OCP).- Yukawa Systems.- Coulomb Crystallization in Dusty Plasmas.- Crystallization in Bounded Systems.- Structural Information.- 3D Crystals.- Dust Particle Interaction.- Interaction in the Horizontal Plane.- Vertical Interaction.- Measurement of the Attractive Force.- Oscillatory Instability of the Vertical Alignment.- The Phase Transition of the Plasma Crystal: Experiment.- The Phase Transition of the Plasma Crystal: Simulations and Theory.- Waves in Weakly Coupled Dusty Plasmas.- Dust-Acoustic Waves.- on-Flow Driven Dust Acoustic Waves.- Dust Ion-Acoustic Wave. - Other Wave Types.- Waves in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas 100.- Compressional Mode in 1D.- Dust Lattice Waves in 2D.- Compressional 1D Dust Lattice Waves: Experiment.- Compressional 2D Dust Lattice Waves: Experiment.- Shear 2D Dust Lattice Waves: Experiment.- Mach Cones.- Transverse Dust Lattice Waves.- Dispersion Relation from Thermal Particle Motion.- A Note on Shielding.- Finite Dust Clusters.- Formation of Finite Dust Clusters.- Structural Transitions in 1D Dust Clusters.- Structure of 2D Finite Dust Clusters.- Structure of 3D Finite Dust Clusters.- Normal Modes in 2D Finite Clusters.- Modes from Thermal Particle Motion.- Stability.- Phase Transitions.- Technical Applications of Dusty Plasmas.- Particle Growth Mechanisms.- Technological Impacts of Dusty Plasmas.- Astrophysical Dusty Plasmas.- Noctilucent Clouds and PMSE.- Dust Streams From Jupiter.- Dust Orbits at Saturn.- Spokes in Saturn’s Rings.- Mach Cones in Saturn’s Rings.- Summary.