Dust charging and levitating in a sheath of plasma containing energetic particles Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11475223), the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China (Grant No. 2015GB101003), and the JSPS-NRF-NSFC A3 Foresight Program in the field of Plasma Physics (Grant Nos. 11261140328 and 2012K2A2A6000443). |
(color online) Plots of levitation position versus balancing dust radius in the sheath for three different ratios of the thermal ion temperature to electron temperature. |