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Light Scattering & Photon Correlation Spectroscopy: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Krakow, Poland, August 26-30, 1996

by E. R. Pike

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The miniaturisation and performance improvements provided by solid state lasers, fibre optics and avalanche photodiode detectors have given a significant impulse to the use of photon correlation techniques in the study of laser scattering by macromolecular suspensions, liquid surfaces, critical fluids and turbulent liquids. The improvements can be found in experimental technique, colloids and aggregation, polymers, gels, liquid crystals and mixtures, protein solutions and dense media. Powerful new methods of inverse problems are being applied to data analysis. Much progress is being made in the study of dense media using index matching techniques. two colour systems and the theory of photon diffusion. Other notable recent developments are phase transitions in the space shuttle microgravity environment, quantum cryptography and the application of photon correlation at X-ray wavelengths using synchrotron sources. Audience: Postgraduate and industrial researchers interested in particle sizing and particle interactions, the physical chemistry of polymers, proteins, enzymes, viruses and other macromolecules, optical instrumentation, and experiments in space.

Book News Annotation:

Reviews recent developments in photon correlation techniques for the spatial, temporal, or spectral analysis of fluctuating light fields, in 30 full papers and an additional seven abstracts. They cover colloids, methods, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, mixtures, statistical and data processing, scattering by dense media, space applications, phase separation, and critical phenomena. Among the specific topics are the shear-induced displacement of spinodal and spinodal-demixing kinetics, light scattering from colloidal crystals in microgravity, measuring the viscoelasticity of complex fluids by diffusing-wave spectroscopy, new ideas in data inversion, characterizing the polysaccharides of starch, polarization fluctuations in radiation scattered by small particles, and dynamic depolarized light scattering studies of anisotropic Brownian particles. Reproduced from typescripts, some double spaced.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780792347361
Other:
Pike, E. R.
Publisher:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Editor:
Abbiss, J.B.
Editor:
Pike, E. R.
Author:
Pike, E. R.
Author:
Abbiss, J.B.
Location:
Dordrecht ;
Subject:
Physics
Subject:
Light
Subject:
Congresses
Subject:
Optics
Subject:
Light -- Scattering -- Congresses.
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:
Series Volume:
40
Publication Date:
January 1997
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
488
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