Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Complex Plasmas in Nature, Laboratory and Technology -- 1.1.1 Dust particles in plasmas -- 1.1.2 Weakly coupled and strongly coupled dusty plasmas -- 1.1.3 Experiments on complex plasmas -- 1.2 New Paradigms and Directions of Complex Plasma Research -- 2. Basics of Plasma-Dust Particle Interactions -- 2.1 Fundamentals of Dust Charging, Main Forces on the Grains and Dust Levitation -- 2.1.1 Negatively and positively charged grains -- 2.1.2 Charging by plasma currents -- 2.1.2.1 Orbit Motion Limited approximation -- 2.1.2.2 Charging of small and non-spherical particles -- 2.1.3 Particle charge - a new kinetic variable -- 2.1.3.1 Dust charging rate -- 2.1.3.2 Kinetic theory of dusty plasmas with variable charge -- 2.1.4 Main forces acting on dust particles in a plasma -- 2.1.5 Dust levitation in a collisionless sheath region -- 2.2 Developments of the Theory of Dust Charging -- 2.2.1 Charging dynamics and charge fluctuations -- 2.2.2 Charging in the plasma stream -- 2.2.3 Effect of trapped ions on dust charging and shielding -- 2.2.4 Charge as a function of the grain size -- 2.3 Interactions of Grain Particles with Ion Flows -- 2.3.1 Ion wake behind a charged point-like particle -- 2.3.2 Dust Cooper pairing: Hamiltonian description -- 2.3.3 Wakes behind dipoles and non-spherical particles -- 2.3.3.1 Wakes behind dipoles -- 2.3.3.2 Wakes behind elongated particles (rods) -- 2.3.4 Subsonic plasma wakes -- 2.3.5 Simulations on plasma wakes -- 2.3.5.1 Wake of a single test particle -- 2.3.5.2 Wake of two particles -- 3 . Production and Diagnostics of Complex Plasmas -- 3.1 Discharge Plasmas -- 3.1.1 RF-capacitive systems -- 3.1.2 DC discharges -- 3.1.2.1 Sheath -- 3.1.2.2 Striations -- 3.1.2.3 Double layers -- 3.1.3 Inductively coupled plasmas -- 3.2 Complex Plasmas with Positive Grains.

3.2.1 UV-induced plasmas -- 3.2.2 Thermal plasmas -- 3.2.3 Nuclear-induced complex plasmas -- 3.3 Traditional Diagnostic Techniques in Complex Plasmas -- 3.3.1 Probe measurements -- 3.3.2 Spectroscopic techniques -- 3.4 Detection and Diagnostics of Dust Particles -- 3.4.1 Detection in laboratory and processing plasmas -- 3.4.2 Dust structure diagnostics -- 3.4.3 Methods of measuring charges on grain particles -- 3.5 Dust Grains as a Diagnostic Tool -- 3.5.1 Plasma sheath diagnostics -- 3.5.2 Spatial profiles of main plasma parameters -- 4. Particle Dynamics in a Complex Plasma -- 4.1 Dynamic Phenomena -- 4.1.1 Modeling dust particle dynamics in a plasma sheath -- 4.1.2 Dynamics of particles in chemically active plasmas -- 4.1.2.1 Dynamics of fine particles in silane plasmas -- 4.1.2.2 Levitation in fluorocarbon plasmas -- 4.1.3 Oscillations of a particle in a plasma sheath -- 4.1.4 Diffusion of dust particles -- 4.2 Arrangements and Instability of Confined Dust Particles -- 4.2.1 Modeling stability of dust particles confinement -- 4.2.2 Experiments on particle arrangements and stability -- 4.2.3 Self-excitation of vertical motions of dust particles -- 5. Structures and Phase Transitions in Complex Plasmas -- 5.1 Self-Organized Plasma-Particle States -- 5.1.1 Dust-plasma sheath as a self-organized structure -- 5.1.2 Dust voids: observations and main mechanisms -- 5.1.3 Modeling of dust voids -- 5.1.3.1 Collisionless dust voids -- 5.1.3.2 Voids in collision-dominated plasmas -- 5.2 Liquid and Crystal-Like Structures -- 5.2.1 Structures in capacitively coupled RF discharge -- 5.2.2 ICP and DC discharge structures -- 5.2.3 Ordered structures in thermal plasmas -- 5.2.4 Dust structures in nuclear and UV induced complex plasmas -- 5.3 Phase States and Phase Transitions -- 5.3.1 Order controlling parameters in a complex plasma.

5.3.2 Criteria of phase transitions -- 5.3.3 Experimental observations of phase transitions -- 6. Waves and Instabilities in Complex Plasmas -- 6.1 Waves in Arrays of Colloid Particles -- 6.1.1 Dust-lattice waves -- 6.1.2 Experiments on dust-lattice waves -- 6.1.3 Dust-lattice transverse waves with out-of plane motions -- 6.1.3.1 Oscillation modes in one-dimensional chains of particles -- 6.1.3.2 Oscillation modes in two vertically arranged one-dimensional chains -- 6.1.4 Dust-lattice waves in the arrays of rod-like particles -- 6.1.5 Waves in chains of magnetized particles -- 6.1.5.1 Compressional and bending modes -- 6.1.5.2 Angular magnetic lattice modes -- 6.2 Waves in Weakly Coupled Unmagnetized Complex Plasmas -- 6.2.1 Langmuir waves -- 6.2.2 Ion-acoustic waves -- 6.2.3 Dust-acoustic waves -- 6.2.4 Surface waves -- 6.2.4.1 Ion-acoustic surface waves at the dielectric-complex plasma interface -- 6.2.4.2 Electrostatic surface waves at the dusty plasma-metal interface -- 6.2.4.3 Electromagnetic surface waves in a dust-contaminated large-area plasma source -- 6.3 Waves in Weakly Coupled Magnetized Complex Plasmas -- 6.3.1 The Alfven resonance -- 6.3.2 Waves in a weakly non-uniform plasma -- 6.3.3 Surface waves -- 6.3.3.1 Dispersion -- 6.3.3.2 Damping -- 6.4 Instabilities in Weakly Coupled Plasmas -- 6.4.1 Dust ion-acoustic instability -- 6.4.2 Dust-acoustic instability -- 6.4.3 Buneman "dust-ion streaming" instability -- 6.4.4 Parametric and modulational instabilities in magnetized complex plasmas -- 6.4.4.1 Parametric pumping -- 6.4.4.2 Modulational instabilities -- 6.4.5 Other instabilities -- 7. Fine Particles in Industrial Applications -- 7.1 Growth and Characterization of Nano- and Micron-Sized Particles -- 7.1.1 Origin and mechanisms of growth of clusters and particulates in reactive plasmas -- 7.1.1.1 Silane plasmas.

7.1.1.2 Hydrocarbon plasmas -- 7.1.1.3 Fluorocarbon plasmas -- 7.1.2 Effects of fine particles on discharge stability -- 7.1.3 Particle growth in plasma-enhanced sputtering facilities -- 7.1.4 Problems of particle detection in the nanometer range -- 7.2 Deleterious Aspects -- 7.2.1 Particulate powders as process contaminants in microelectronics -- 7.2.2 Removal and growth suppression of dust particles -- 7.2.3 Role of dust particles in fusion reactors -- 7.3 New Applications of Nano- and Micron-Sized Particles -- 7.3.1 Nanoparticles in the plasma-assisted assembly of carbon-based nanostructures -- 7.3.2 Nanopowders in plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of nanostructured silicon-based films -- 7.3.3 High-rate cluster and particulate deposition on nanostructured surfaces: a new paradigm in thin film fabrication -- 7.3.4 Particle size as a key factor in nano-scale technologies -- 7.3.5 Other industrial applications of nano- and micron- sized particles -- 7.3.6 Concluding remarks -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.