Abstract
Abstract This work consists of two parts. First part describes the results of optical spectral diagnostics of dusty plasma of carbonaceous gas mixtures in radio frequency discharge. The change in the emission spectrum of the plasma of mixture of argon and methane with introducing of the dust particles was observed. It was explained by the change in the electron temperature. The same effect was observed in other gases: argon, argon‐hydrogen mixture. The second part is about diagnostics of buffer plasma parameters on the basis of dust structure characteristics obtained in the experiments. The possibility of diagnostics of buffer plasma on the basis of experimental data of microscopic characteristics was shown. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)