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Recently, there has been interest in the properties of strongly coupled dusty plasmas in the liquid phase. Here, we consider theoretically a possible way to generate and detect a dense dusty plasma liquid. The idea is to use noble metal submicron dust particles and detect the dust by scattering at the surface plasmon resonance frequency of the dust. Parameters that may be relevant to possible laboratory dusty plasma experiments are discussed. Index Terms--Dusty plasma, liquid.

Periodic structures in plasmas form unique dispersions of electromagnetic waves, which are examined in numerical calculation. Above electron plasma frequency, where waves equivalently propagate in dielectric media, plasma arrays with 2-D periodicity produce frequency regions of forbidden propagation, like band gaps in a photonic crystal. Below electron plasma frequency, where waves are usually forbidden to propagate due to cutoff phenomenon, bulk plasmas with periodic holes can become wave-propagating media in which localized surface modes play an important role. Such features give rise to concepts of dynamic wave controllers that change their inner electron density in time. Index Terms--Electromagnetic propagation, microwave devices, numerical analysis, plasma devices, plasmons.