Journal article
Three-dimensional structure in a crystallized dusty plasma
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, Vol.54(5), pp.5636-5640
11/1996
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.5636
PMID: 9965751
Abstract
Direct imaging of the three-dimensional structure of a system of particles suspended in a dusty plasma reveals coexisting bcc and simple-hexagonal crystal structures. The coexistence is attributed to a bistability which appears in a recent theory predicting an attractive region in the plasma downstream of a particle in an ion flow. Both structures are polycrystalline, and they have short-range translational but quasi-long-range orientational order within a grain. This ordering is characteristic of the two-dimensional hexatic phase, but the existence of grain boundaries is not
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Three-dimensional structure in a crystallized dusty plasma
- Creators
- J. B Pieper - University of IowaJ Goree - University of IowaR. A Quinn - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, Vol.54(5), pp.5636-5640
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.5636
- PMID
- 9965751
- ISSN
- 1063-651X
- eISSN
- 1095-3787
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1996
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy; Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984199761702771
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