Capillary waves on an asymmetric liquid film of pentane on water

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4134-4139

  Fenistein, Denis ^a   Wegdam, Gerard H ^a   Meyer, William V ^a,b   Mann, J Adin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SURFACE PHENOMENA; THIN FILMS; VAPORS;

WAVELENGTH;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0001362655     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004134     Document Type: Article

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