PUBLICATIONS FROM THE PSL
Updated: January, 2009
Refereed Publications
- Marlene Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Jr., and Robert L. Merlino, A note on dust wave excitation in a plasma with warm dust: Comparison with experiment, Phys. Plasmas 15, 073701 (2008).
- Jeremiah Williams, Edward Thomas, Jr., and Lydia Marcus, Observations of vertically propagating driven dust acoustic waves: finite temperature effects, Phys. Plasmas 15, 043704 (2008).
- Edward Thomas, Jr., Ross Fisher, and Robert L. Merlino, Observations of dust acoustic waves driven at high frequencies: Finite dust temperature effects and wave interference, Phys. Plasmas, 14, 123701 (2007).
- Jeremiah Williams and Edward Thomas, Jr., Measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly coupled dusty plasma, Phys. Plasmas, 14, 063702 (2007).
- Zachary Aldewereld and Edward Thomas, Jr., Observation of one-dimensional flows in a DC glow discharge dusty plasma, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 35, 309 (2007).
- Jeremiah Williams and Edward Thomas, Jr., Measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly coupled dusty plasma, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 35, 303 (2007).
- E. Thomas, Jr., Measurements of a spatially growing dust acoustic wave in a dc glow discharge plasma, Phys. Plasmas, 13, 042105 (2006).
- E. Thomas, Jr. and J. Williams*, Applications of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry: dust acoustic waves and velocity space distribution functions, Phys. Plasmas, 13 055702 (2006).
- J. Williams* and E. Thomas, Jr., Initial measurement of the kinetic dust temperature of a weakly-coupled dusty plasma, Phys. Plasmas. 13, 063509 (2006).
- "Experimental Measurements of Velocity Dissipation and Neutral-Drag Effects during the Formation of a Dusty Plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Jeremiah Williams, Phys. Rev. Letters, 95, 055001 (2005)
- "Suppression of low frequency plasma instabilities in a magnetized plasma column", Edward Thomas, Jr., Ashley Eadon, and Edwynn A. Wallace, Phys. Plasmas, 12, 042109 (2005)
- "Design and initial operation of ALEXIS: a new plasma experiment for studying shear driven flows", Edwynn Wallace, Edward Thomas, Jr., Ashley Eadon, and Jon David Jackson, Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 5160 (2004).
- "Probe induced voids in a dusty plasma", E. Thomas, Jr., K. Avinash, and R. L Merlino, Phys. Plasmas, 11, 1770 (2004).
- "Application of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry to studies of transport in a dusty (complex) plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr., Jeremiah D. Williams, and Jennifer Silver, Phys. Plasmas, 11, L37 (2004)
- "Controlled interactions of two micropaticle clouds in a dc glow discharge dusty (complex) plasma", E. Thomas, Jr., New Journal of Physics, 5, 45.1-13, (2003).
- "Observations of low frequency oscillations due to transverse sheard flows", Edward Thomas, Jr., Jon David Jackson, Edwynn Wallace, and Gurudas Ganguli, Phys. Plasmas, 10, 1191 (2003).
- "Periodic long-range transport in a large volume dc glow discharge dusty plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr., William E. Amatucci, Christopher Compton, Brian Christy, and Jon David Jackson, Phys. Plasmas, 10, 1159 (2003).
- "Measurements of forces acting on suspended microparticles in the void region of a complex plasma", E. Thomas, Jr., B. M. Annaratone, G. E. Morfill, and H. Rothermel, Phys. Rev. E, 66, 016405 (2002).
- "Observations of structured and long-range transport in a large volume dusty (complex) plasma experiment", Edward Thomas, Jr., William E. Amatucci, Christopher Compton, Brian Christy, Phys. Plasmas, 9, 3154 (2002).
- Potential profiles obtained from applied dust cloud perturbations", E. Thomas, Jr. Phys. Plasmas, 9, 17 (2002).
- "Visualization of dust particle transport in dc glow discharge plasmas", E. Thomas, Jr., IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 30, 88, (2002).
- "Potential profiles obtained from applied dust cloud perturbations", Edward Thomas, Jr., Phys. Plasmas, 9, (2002).
- "Dust particle motion in the vicinity of dust acoustic waves", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Robert L. Merlino, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, 29, 152 (2001).
- "Observations of high speed particle streams in dc glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physics of Plasmas, 8, 329 (2001).
- "Direct measurements of particle transport in dc glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physica Scripta, T89, 20 (2001).
- "Charging of silica particles in an argon dusty plasma", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Michael Watson, Physics of Plasmas, 7, 3194 (2000).
- "First experiments in the Dusty Plasma Experiment (DPX) device", Edward Thomas, Jr. and Michael Watson, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 4111 (1999).
- "Direct measurements of two-dimensional velocity profiles in direct current glow discharge dusty plasmas", Edward Thomas, Jr., Physics of Plasmas, 6, 2672 (1999).
Selected Conference Proceedings
- E. Thomas, Jr. and J. Williams*, Analysis of the neutral drag force in a dc glow discharge dusty plasma, NEW VISTAS IN DUSTY PLASMAS: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, eds. L. Boufendi, M. Mikikian, and P. Shukla, AIP Conference Proceedings 799 (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY, 2005).
- V. Land*, E. Thomas, Jr. and J. Williams*, Dust Transport and Force Equilibria in Magnetized Dusty DC Discharges, in NEW VISTAS IN DUSTY PLASMAS: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, eds. L. Boufendi, M. Mikikian, and P. Shukla, AIP Conference Proceedings 799 (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY, 2005).
- J. Williams* and E. Thomas, Jr., Measurement of the Kinetic Dust Temperature of a Weakly-Coupled Dusty Plasmas, in NEW VISTAS IN DUSTY PLASMAS: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, eds. L. Boufendi, M. Mikikian, and P. Shukla, AIP Conference Proceedings 799 (American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY, 2005).
- "The vertical confinement of a dusty plasma in the Fisk Plasma
Source", E. Thomas, Jr. and M. Watson, in Physics of Dusty
Plasmas, 7th Workshop, eds. M. Morayni, S. Robertson, and B.
Walch, p. 60, AIP Conference Proceedings 446, (American Institute
of Physics, Woodbury, NY), 1998.
Pending Publication
- Edward Thomas, Jr., Dust clouds in dc-generated dusty plasmas: transport, waves, and three-dimensional effects, Review article submitted to Contributions in Plasma Physics (Dec., 2008)