Research Associate
Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
University of Colorado
Ph.D. 2005, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Office: Gamow Tower room F833
Phone: 303-492-5565
Fax: 303-492-0642

Research

My recent research interests are in laboratory studying dust dynamics on or near planetary surfaces, including dust charging, levitation and transport. I am also interested in plasma diagnostics, sheath physics and low temperature plasma physics.

Selected Publications

X. Wang, M. Horanyi, Z. Sternovsky, S. Robertson and G. E. Morfil, “A Laboratory model of the lunar surface potential near boundaries between sunlit and shadowed regions”, GeoPhys. Res. Lett., 34, L16104 (2007).

X. Wang, S. Knappmiller, S. Robertson and Z. Sternovsky, “Analysis of the particle flux to the wall of a hot-filament discharge device”, Phys. Plasmas, 14, 043503 (2007).

X. Wang, J. Colwell, M. Horanyi and S. Robertson, “Charge of dust on surfaces in plasma”, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 35, 2 (2007).

X. Wang and N. Hershkowitz, “Experimental Studies of the Two-Ion Species Flow in the Plasma Presheath”, Phys. Plasmas 13, 053503 (2006).

X. Wang and N. Hershkowitz, “A simple way to determine the edge of an electron-free sheath with an emissive probe”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 043507 (2006).

N. Hershkowitz, E. Ko, X. Wang, and A.M. Hala, “Presheath Environment in Weakly Ionized Single and Multi-Species Plasmas”, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 33, 631 (2005).

G. D. Severn, X. Wang, E. Ko, and N. Hershkowitz, “Experimental Studies of the Bohm Criterion in a Two-Ion-Species Plasma Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 145001 (2003)