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Research

Work done in the Graves Lab at the University of California, Berkeley:

Studying Collective Effects in Complex Plasmas

• Coupled Molecular-Dynamics/Fluid Simulations
• Overview Article

Work done in the Complex Plasma Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching:

Complex Plasmas Under Microgravity Conditions

• Probe particles in three-dimensional complex plasmas - Mach cones (lead author: K. Jiang); used to measure the speed of sound; Non-viscous motion (lead author: D. I. Zhukhovitskii)
• Self-excited oscillations of the complex plasma - Auto-oscillations (lead author: S. Zhdanov), Heartbeat instability (lead author: R. Heidemann)
• Crystallization - link (lead author: S. Khrapak)
• Decharging (lead author: L. Wörner)
• Lane formation (lead author: C.-R. Du)

Phd Thesis: Dynamical effects in fluid complex plasmas - pdf
   Lab: PK-3 Plus

Waves in complex plasmas

• Autowaves behind a nozzle (lead author: M. Fink)
• Highly resolved density waves self-excited in a complex plasma
• Waves in complex plasmas under microgravity conditions

Instability in complex plasmas under the influence of a temperature gradient

• Bubbles, blobs, and surface cusps in liquid complex plasmas
• Convection in a dusty plasma

Microparticle bubble - picture by Michael Kretschmer

Complex plasmas in high magnetic fields

   Lab: 4T Maglab under supervision of Dr. Uwe Konopka

• Diploma thesis: Microparticles as Probes in a Highly Magnetized Plasma - pdf
• Related publication: Pattern formation in a complex plasma in high magnetic fields - pdf

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bibliography of useful literature, mostly on complex plasma physics (August 2010): view - download in .bib format