Recent Publications

Dusty Plasmas

N. D'Angelo. "Low-Frequency Electrostatic Waves in Dusty Plasmas." Planet. Space Sci. 38, 1143 (1990)

N. D'Angelo and B. Song. "The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Dusty Plasmas." Planet. Space Sci. 38, 1577 (1990)

W. Xu, B. Song, R.L. Merlino and N. D'Angelo, "A Dusty Plasma Device for Producing Extended, Steady State, Magnetized Dusty Plasma Columns." Rev. Sci. Instruments 63, 5266 (1992)

W. Xu, N. D'Angelo, and R.L. Merlino, "Dusty Plasmas: The Effect of Closely Packed Grains." JGR 98, 7843 (1993)

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L.Merlino, "Charging of Dust Grains in a Plasma." Phys. Rev. Letters 73, 3093 (1994)

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L. Merlino, "Laboratory Experiments on Electrostatic Ion Cyclotron Waves in a Dusty Plasma." Planet. Space Sci., 43, 905 (1995)

A. Barkan and R.L. Merlino, "Confinement of Dust Particles in a Double Layer." Physics of Plasmas 2, 3261 (1995)

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L. Merlino, "Ion Acoustic Waves in a Dusty Plasma." Planet. Space Sci. 44, 239 (1996)

A. Barkan, R.L. Merlino, and N. D'Angelo, "Laboratory Observation of the Dust Acoustic Wave Mode." Physics of Plasmas 2, 3563 (1995)

R.L. Merlino, A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, W. Xu, and B. Song, "Laboratory Experiments in Dusty Plasmas." Proceedings of the International Conference on Plasma Physics ICPP 1994, Foz do Iguacu, AIP Conf. Proc. 345 (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1995) pp. 295-302.

N. D'Angelo, "Comment on Coulomb Solids and Low-Frequency Fluctuations in RF Dusty Plasmas." J. Phys D: Appl. Phys., 28, 1009 (1995)

N. D'Angelo and R.L. Merlino, "Current Driven Dust Acoustic Waves in a Collisional Plasma." Planet. Space Sci. 44, 1593 (1996)

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L. Merlino, "Potential Relaxation Instability and Ion Acoustic Waves in a Single-Ended Q-Machine Dusty Plasma." Physics Letters A 222, 329 (1996)

R.L. Merlino, "Current Driven Ion Acoustic Instability in a Collisional Dusty Plasma." IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 25, 93 (1997)

N. D'Angelo, A. Barkan, and R.L. Merlino, "Experiments on Dust-Plasma Interactions." The Physics of Dusty Plasmas, ed. P.K. Shukla, D.A. Mendis, and V.W. Chow, p 93-101 (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore) 1996.

R.L. Merlino and A. Barkan, "Confinement of Dust Particles in a Double Layer" The Physics of Dusty Plasmas, ed. P.K. Shukla, D.A. Mendis, and V.W. Chow, p. 102-106 (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore) 1996.

R.L. Merlino, A. Barkan, C. Thompson, and N. D'Angelo, "Experiments on Waves and Instabilities in Dusty Plasmas." Invited paper at 1996 International Conference on Plasma Physics, Nagoya, Japan. Plasma Physics and Contr. Fusion, 39, A421 (1997)

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L. Merlino, "Laboratory Studies of Ion and Dust Acoustic Instabilities in Dusty Plasmas." Adv. Phys. Dusty Plasmas Ed. P. Shukla, et al. 1997

C. Thompson, A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, and R.L Merlino, "Dust Acoustic Waves in a Direct Current Glow Discharge." Physics of Plasmas, 4, 2331 (1997).

R.L. Merlino, A. Barkan, C. Thompson, and N. D'Angelo, "Laboratory Studies of Waves and Instabilities in Dusty Plasmas."  Physics of Plasmas, 5, 1607 (1998).

A. Barkan, N. D'Angelo, R.L. Merlino and C. Thompson.   "Experiments on Ion and Dust Acoustic Waves."  To appear in the Proceedings of the VII Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasma

C. Thompson, A. Barkan, R.L. Merlino and N. D'Angelo.  "Video Imaging of Dust Acoustic Waves", submitted to IEEE Trans. on Plasma Science, 1998


Velocity Shear Instabilities

R.L. Merlino, T. An, J. Willig, and N. D'Angelo, "The Effect of Negative Ions and Neutral Particle Collisions on the Paralell Velocity Shear Instability." Invited Paper, The Fifth Symposium on Double Layers - Potential Formation and Related Nonlinear Phenomena in Plasmas, Sendei, Japan, 1996.

J. Willig, R.L. Merlino, and N. D'Angelo, "Experimental Study of the Collisional Velocity Shear Instability." JGR, 102, 27249 (1997)

J. Willig, R.L. Merlino, and N. D'Angelo, "Experimental Study of the Paralell Velocity Shear Instability", Phys. Letters A, A236, 223 (1997)