• DocumentCode
    1490351
  • Title

    The criteria for dust agglomeration in plasmas

  • Author

    Bingham, Robert ; Tsytovich, V.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Space Sci., Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton, UK
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    158
  • Lastpage
    163
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate dust particle attraction in a plasma due to plasma particle and neutral particle bombardment. A criteria of charged dust agglomeration is found, where the attraction forces, due to bombardment, exceed the dust repulsion forces due to Coulomb interaction between like charges. Agglomerates in the systems which are optically thin for thermal radiation of dust particles is considered
  • Keywords
    aggregation; dusty plasmas; electrostatics; plasma collision processes; Coulomb interaction; attraction forces; dust particle attraction; dust repulsion forces; electrostatic effects; grain dynamics; like charges.; neutral particle bombardment; optically thin agglomerates; plasma dust agglomeration criteria; plasma particle bombardment; thermal radiation; Astrophysics; Dusty plasma; Electrons; Electrostatics; Etching; Helium; Laboratories; Plasma applications; Plasma devices; Plasma temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/27.923686
  • Filename
    923686