| Issue |
Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys.
Volume 56, Number 2, November 2011
Topical Issue: 18th International Colloquium on Plasma Processes (CIP 2011)
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| Article Number | 24018 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2011110163 | |
| Published online | 28 October 2011 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2011110163
Plasma inhomogeneities near the electrodes of a capacitively-coupled radio-frequency discharge containing dust particles
GREMI, Groupe de Recherches sur l’Energétique des Milieux Ionisés, UMR 6606, CNRS/Université d’Orléans, 14 rue d’Issoudun, BP6744, 45067 Orléans Cedex 2, France
a e-mail: hagop.tawidian@univ-orleans.fr
b e-mail: maxime.mikikian@univ-orleans.fr
Received:
15
April
2011
Revised:
25
July
2011
Accepted:
3
August
2011
Published online:
28
October
2011
Small plasma spheroids are evidenced and analyzed in front of the electrodes of a capacitively-coupled radio-frequency discharge in which dust particles are growing. These regions are characterized by a spherical shape, a slightly enhanced luminosity and are related to instabilities induced by the presence of dust particles. Several types of behaviors are identified and particularly their chaotic appearance or disappearance and their rotational motion along the electrode periphery. Correlations with the unstable behavior of the global plasma glow are performed. These analyses are obtained thanks to high-speed imaging which is the only diagnostics able to evidence these plasma spheroids.
© EDP Sciences, 2011
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