Conditions for formation of dust layers and parameters of dusty plasma in near-electrode area of RF-discharge

Formation of structural phase transitions is of great interest on both practical and theoretical grounds and at present time, it is a subject of intensive theoretical and experimental studies in various areas of physics. Growth of interest to problems related with behavior of dusty plasma particles is connected with development of a wide range of applications, including possibility of a retention and control of attitude position of nanoscale objects. Investigations of configurational phase transitions in two-dimensional systems that are related to changes of their dimension or an orientation order are also of significant interest. Formation of such systems consisting of several extended layers (from one to tens) of charged macroparticles (dust particles), is often observed in the conditions of laboratory dusty plasma of rf-discharge.