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Experimental Methods of Dust Charging and Mobilization on Surfaces with Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation or Plasmas
Published on: April 3, 2018
Discharging of dust particles in the afterglow of plasma with large dust density
I B Denysenko1, I Stefanović, B Sikimić
1School of Physics and Technology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svobody sq. 4, 61077 Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The discharging of dust particles in the afterglow of plasma with large dust density is studied. We used measured electron and metastable dependencies to calculate the rate describing collection of electrons by dust particles by solving the electron balance equation. This rate is compared with the rate calculated using the orbital motion limited (OML) theory. It is found that the OML theory may not be applied for description of dust charging at large afterglow times, and the energetic electrons generated in metastable-metastable collisions significantly affect charging of dust particles. The time dependence for dust charge is calculated by two different approaches: first, the "standard" approach is used, which assumes that ion and electron fluxes to the dust particles are different in the afterglow. Second, the dust charge is calculated by assuming that desorption of electrons from dust particles is very fast. Both approaches gave similar results for dust charging. In addition, the effects of secondary emission due to ion-dust and metastable-dust collisions on dust discharging are investigated. The main source of dust charging in the late afterglow of plasma with large dust density are the energetic electrons generated in Ar(m) metastable-metastable collisions.
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