Phase behavior of two-dimensional colloidal systems in the presence of periodic light fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 930-933

  Bechinger, C ^a   Brunner, M ^a   Leiderer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYSTYRENES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

POLYSTYRENE SPHERES;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0035137783     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.930     Document Type: Article

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