Dusty plasmas: From Saturn's rings to semiconductor processing devices

R Merlino - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Dusty plasmas are plasmas containing solid particles in the size range of about 10 nm—10
μm. The particles acquire an electrical charge by collecting electrons and ions from the …

25 years of dust acoustic waves

RL Merlino - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2014 - cambridge.org
The dust acoustic wave (DAW) was first discussed by PK Shukla in May of 1989 at the First
Capri Workshop on Dusty Plasmas. In the past 25 years, the subsequent publication of the …

[HTML][HTML] The phase shift analysis of the colliding dissipative KdV solitons

W Albalawi, SA El-Tantawy, SA Alkhateeb - Journal of Ocean Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, the head-on collisions of the non-stationary dissipative soliton in ultracold
neutral plasmas (UNPs) are investigated. The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo (PLK) …

Charged dust phenomena in the near-Earth space environment

WA Scales, A Mahmoudian - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Dusty (or complex) plasmas in the Earth's middle and upper atmosphere ultimately result in
exotic phenomena that are currently forefront research issues in the space science …

Slowing of acoustic waves in electrorheological and string-fluid complex plasmas

M Schwabe, SA Khrapak, SK Zhdanov… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The PK-4 laboratory consists of a direct current plasma tube into which microparticles are
injected, forming a complex plasma. The microparticles acquire many electrons from the …

Dusty plasmas: experiments on nonlinear dust acoustic waves, shocks and structures

RL Merlino, JR Heinrich, SH Kim… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A review is presented of recent experiments performed on the University of Iowa dc
discharge dusty plasma device on various aspects of dust acoustic waves. A brief …

[HTML][HTML] Shivalik Plasma Device-I, a glow discharge device to study the collective dynamics of dusty plasma

S Sharma, M Sharma, GV Prakash, P Srivastav… - AIP Advances, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Using a uniquely configured glow discharge-based Shivalik Plasma Device-I, we
demonstrate a variety of collective phenomena in dusty plasma away from the glow …

Nonlinear dynamics of large-amplitude dust acoustic shocks and solitary pulses in dusty plasmas

PK Shukla, B Eliasson - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
We present a fully nonlinear theory for dust acoustic (DA) shocks and DA solitary pulses in a
strongly coupled dusty plasma, which have been recently observed experimentally by …

Spatiotemporal evolution of a self-excited dust density wave in a nanodusty plasma under strong Havnes effect

B Chutia, T Deka, Y Bailung, D Sharma… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A broad-spectrum self-excited dust density wave is experimentally studied in a vertically
extended nanodusty plasma consisting of in situ grown carbonaceous nanometer sized …

Low-frequency shock waves in a magnetized superthermal dusty plasma

BS Chahal, Y Ghai, NS Saini - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, 2017 - Springer
The characteristics of low-frequency shocks in a magnetized dusty plasma comprising of
negatively charged dust fluid, kappa-distributed electrons and ions have been investigated …