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Microscope at the Brewster angle: Direct observation of first-order phase transitions in monolayers
Review of Scientific Instruments · 1991 · Vol. 62(4) · pp. 936–939
Sylvie Hénon✉(Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)Jacques Meunier(Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Abstract
A microscope employing the characteristics of the reflection at the Brewster angle has been built for the study of first-order phase transitions in monolayers and the growth of two-dimensional domains without adding fluorescent impurities. It takes about 2.4 s to constitute an image.
Surface and Thin Film Phenomenananoparticles nucleation surface interactionsForce Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsBrewster's angleMonolayerMicroscopeOpticsMaterials scienceBrewsterReflection (computer programming)MicroscopyImpurityPhase (matter)
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