University of Oxford

Oxford Plasma Physics and Pulsed Power Group

University of Oxford

Group Members

  • Dr Paul Smith
  • Dr Joanna Ashbourn
  • Luis Caballero
  • Jamie Darling
"Researching dusty plasmas, plasma crystals and force interactions in complex plasmas"
Plasma ball

Research Projects include:

  • A theoretical study of the motion of falling dust particles in a dusty plasma to determine the charge on the particles;

  • An investigation of the variation of the charge on levitated dust particles with height in a plasma crystal;

  • A study of chaotic behaviour in the non-linear oscillations observed between two and three dust particle assemblies levitating in the RF sheath of a dusty plasma;

  • A study of the effect of dust particles on the impedance of a dusty plasma.