Electrode Configuration for Dusty Plasmas with Uniform Dust Clouds under Microgravity Conditions

摘要

The dusty (complex) plasma research project is going on with cooperation for the PK-3 plus flight module between scientific teams of Germany and Russia. Uniformities of plasmas and dust particle distributions are significant in the project and future works to understand physical phenomena in dust clouds. The present work shows dust particle distributions can be changed by modification of an electrode, implying changing plasma space potential profiles.