Crossover from first-order to critical wetting: Short-range tricritical wetting

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 17, 2001, Pages

  Ross, David ^a   Bonn, Daniel ^b   Indekeu, Joseph O ^c   Meunier, Jacques ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; ELLIPSOMETRY; METHANOL; PARAFFINS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THICK FILMS;

MEAN-FIELD THEORY (MFT);

WETTING;

EID: 0035934877     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.176103     Document Type: Article

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