Three-dimensional confocal microscopy of colloids

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4152-4159

  Dinsmore, A D ^a   Weeks, Eric R ^a,b   Prasad, Vikram ^a   Levitt, Andrew C ^a   Weitz, D A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GLASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0001590556     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004152     Document Type: Article

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