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Diagnostic Methods in Dusty Plasmas

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Physics of Dusty Plasmas

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The dust size, the interparticle distance and the time scales associated with the particle motion are ideally suited to study the dusty plasmas by optical techniques. Here, we like to review different diagnostic methods (video microscopy, scanning microscopy, holography, stereoscopy) to measure the structure and dynamics of two-dimensional and three-dimensional micro-dust systems. Also, approaches to determine the dust size (distribution) and dust density (distribution) in a nano-dust cloud are presented.

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    CCD: charge-coupled device, CMOS: complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors. In former years, CCD cameras have been used in situations where high-quality image data are needed. However, over the recent years, CMOS cameras, that provide higher data rates, have considerably improved in image quality and nowadays generally outperform CCD cameras.

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    At present, standard USB 3.0 allows a data transfer rate of about 300 MByte/s allowing 300 fps at 1 Megapixel resolution, but also faster techniques are available.

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    The recorded video images should be stored in a lossless data format. The use of lossy formats, such as “jpeg”, is strongly discouraged since they introduce artifacts that interfere with image analysis.

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    Plenoptic (or light-field) cameras distribute the light over some pixels so that the direction of the light rays can be recovered. This allows, as post-processing after recording of the light-field image, to calculate images at different focal planes and thus to retrieve 3D information.

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    The depth of field of a camera is the distance around the focal plane where the particles appear reasonably sharp. Large depths of field usually require small lens apertures.

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Melzer, A. (2019). Diagnostic Methods in Dusty Plasmas. In: Physics of Dusty Plasmas. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20260-6_10

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