Dusty Plasmas: From Cosmic Nurseries to Coloumb Crystals

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Nov 1999

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American Physical Society, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, November 15-19, 1999 Seattle, WA, abstract #ER

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Plasma Physics

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Inoized gases laded with fine charged dust, loosely referred to as dusty plasmas, occur in a wide variety of environments both cosmic and terrestrial. Dust is an almost ubiquitous component of the space plasma environment occurring in such diverse objects as galactic nebulae, comets, planetary rings, noctilucent clouds and the zodiacal disc. Dust also occurs in laboratory plasmas used for material processing and plasma tools and the novel crystallized dusty plasmas (the so-called 'plasma crystals'). While the spatial dimensions and the time scales associated with these dusty plasma phenomena in space and in the laboratory vary over twenty orders of magnitude, there is a commonality in the underlying physics. This realization has led to a highly synergistic interaction between the diverse communities working in the area in recent times, which in turn has greatly accelerated the development of the field. In this tutorial I will discuss some of the basic physics of dusty plasmas and their applications, in a wide range of space and laboratory environments in order to underscore the richness and scope of the field. I will conclude by discussing some outstanding theoretical issues and possible future applications.

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