EXPERIMENTAL-DETERMINATION OF THE CHARGE ON DUST PARTICLES FORMING COULOMB LATTICES

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MELZER, A
TROTTENBERG, T
PIEL, A
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[1] Institut für Experimentalphysik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 24098 Kiel
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10.1016/0375-9601(94)90144-9
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Large dust grains (r(p)=10 mu m) are found to form hexagonal Coulomb lattices with an interparticle distance of R(p)=880 mu m in the sheath of an argon rf discharge. The charge on the particle is measured from its resonant response to an external periodic force. The charge is found to be -200000e.
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