Crystallography of ordered colloids using optical microscopy. 1. Parallel-beam technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 284-295

  Rogers, Richard B ^a,b   Lagerlöf, K Peter D ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

CLOSE-PACKED STRUCTURE; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; PARALLEL INCIDENT BEAM;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 40749161966     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000284     Document Type: Article

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