Sizing nanoparticles with dynamic light scattering

Powder and Bulk Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 35-41

  Freud, Paul J ^a   Plantz, Philip E ^b  

^a Microtrac Inc   (United States)

^b Microtrac Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

HETERODYNE DETECTION; HOMODYNE DETECTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 16244363694     PISSN: 08976627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. R. Furth, ed., Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement, Dover Publications, New York, 1956.
2. R. Pecora, "Doppler shifts in light scattering from pure liquids and polymer solutions," Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 40, page 1604.
3. S. B. Dubin, J. H. Lunacek, and G. B. Benedek, "Brownian motion using light scattering," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States), Vol. 57, page 1164.
4. The dynamic light-scattering particle size analyzer described is based on the heterodyne detection mode; other controlled-reference size analyzers with different optical systems are available from various manufacturers.
5. Sizing results are from tests performed during 2004 at Microtrac Inc.'s Montgomeryville, Pa., facility using Microtrac's Nanotrac 150 dynamic light- scattering particle size analyzer (based on the heterodyne detection mode).