a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
b M. L. Sultan Technikon, Durban, South Africa
Abstract:
This brief note investigates a lower hybrid instability driven by a beam of negatively charged dust in a collisionless magnetized dusty plasma. Application to the generation of fluctuations by Space Shuttle exhaust in the ionosphere is discussed.